Columbus

Famed Italian writer Rafael Sabatini spins the romantic novel "Columbus" around the life of the 15th century explorer. A sleek, smart talking stranger arrives in Spain and catches the interest of a Prior. The man tells the Prior that his travels abroad have exposed him to an empire with vast riches beyond any man's dreams. He tells the Prior that lacking a man to introduce him to the Spanish royal court, he is on his way to France to convince the King of France to sponsor an expedition to the lands and claim them as French territory. But the Prior, who is in fact a confidant of Queen Isabella, has now been roused into interest. He would rather that such a monumental find would not be taken up by any other nation except Spain…