Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus and Fernández de Santaella, the three protagonists of the first globalization

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Between the second and third journey of the four that Christopher Columbus made to what we know today as the American continent, the Genoese admiral sent to buy in Gouda, Netherlands, a book that had aroused much interest: a Latin edition, already in printed paper, of the Book of Wonders, that Marco Polo had written in 1298. Columbus studies it, searches it, manages it as a useful tool to try to place in the map of the world the geographical poi…