Item of the Day: Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1834)

Full Title: The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, by Washington Irving. Abridged and arranged by the author, expressly for the use of schools. New York: Published by N. and J. White, 108 Pearl-Street, 1834.
CHAPTER I.
Birth, parentage, education, and early life of Columbus.
1. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, or Columbo, as the name is written in Italian, was [...]