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Default Rare copy of a Christopher Columbus letter stolen in Venice is recovered by authoriti

Rare copy of a Christopher Columbus letter stolen in Venice is recovered by authorities in Delaware

01-25-2020 01:46 PM

Sometime in the mid-1980s, someone made their way into the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, Italy, and walked out with a 500-year old Latin copy of the first letter Christopher Columbus wrote to Ferdinand, King of Spain, describing the wonders he beheld in the Americas. This week, U.S. officials announced that the letter, which bears an estimated market value of $1.3 million, had been recovered.


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