BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION
Nito Verdera
was born in 1934 on the island of Ibiza, Spain; he has been first mate in the
Merchant Marine and a journalist. While sailing in Swedish ships in the Caribbean
Sea, he began to become interested in the figure of Christopher Columbus. Changing
the course of his life, he returned to Ibiza to enter into the world of journalism
and has been a contributer for many years to the Diario de Ibiza, Ultima Hora, La Prensa de Ibiza, Radio Nacional de España, Catalunya Radio,
Cadena Cope, Televisión Española (TVE).
Nito Verdera
has dedicated a good part of his professional life, as is required of any large
investigative project, to the study of the enigmatic character who gave a New
World to the Spanish monarchy, and has arrived at the conclusion that this individual
can only be explained as Catalan-speaking, crypto-Jewish and a member of Ibiza’s
powerful Colom family, a branch of that which owned properties in Barcelona’s
Call judio. Nito Verdera, is really
exposing in a scientific manner the weak points of the Italian, Galician, Portuguese,
Corsican and even Greek contenders who claim the paternity of the discoverer
of America. His most important works are:
–
Tesis ibicenca
de Cristóbal Colon - Cristòfor Colom fou eivissenc,
1979 [An Ibicenco thesis for Christopher Columbus - Christopher Columbus was
Ibicenco]
–
La verdad de un nacimiento - Colón ibicenco,
1988 [The
truth behind a birth - Ibicenco Columbus]
–
Cristóbal Colón, catalanoparlante, 1994
–
Cristóbal Colón, originario de Ibiza y criptojudio, 1999
–
De Ibiza y Formenta al Caribe: Cristóbal Colón
y la toponomia, 2000
Nito Verdera, lecturer in Washington, D.C.
