The Portuguese Columbus

Part 1: the Cathars; the Inquisition; the Portuguese Jews; the peninsular crusades and the templars; the pre-Columbian discoveries; the diplomatic treaties of King John II. Part 2 The hermetism of Christopher Columbus: Columbian documentation; the language of the Admiral of the Indies; the multiplicity of "Foreign Columbuses". Part 3 Empirical and scientific navigation: Portuguese nautical cryptography; the enigma of Columbus' voyages; the problem of the legendary Thule; more theses on the discovery of America; the mystery of the seven cities. Part 4 Biographic Machiavellianism: enigmatic lineage; the "fabric" of a weaver's descent; the strategem fo deceit. Part 5 Christopher Columbus revealed: dispersing the mist; the prophecy of the Sibyl; astrology and alchemy; the labyrinth of the Cabala; on the other side of the mirror; from light to darkness. Part 6 Check and mate: after the heat of the battle; a house on Madeira and a convent in Lisbon; the genealogical web; "terra rubra" and la rabida; huntsmen and admirals; stopovers at Azores, Portugal and Arzila. Part 7 On the trail of the last incognitos: the protectors of the admiral; adulterers and adulterators; the damsel of Cordoba; distortions corrected; the heraldic secret; a question of physionomy; the "Brothers" and the "Cousins" gambit. Appendix 1: The Hebraic letters/numbers and their meaning. Appendix 2: Triangles and hemispheres and its Latin words.