{"id":21968,"date":"2013-09-02T07:40:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T06:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=21968"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:05:53","slug":"casas-bartolome-de-las-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/casas-bartolome-de-las-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Casas, Bartolom\u00e9 de las"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bartoleme.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21969\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bartoleme.png\" alt=\"Bartoleme\" width=\"176\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a>Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas (1484-1566) <\/b>was a Dominican friar, who chronicled the excesses of the Spanish invaders of America. He renounced his earlier views about slavery and spent decades fighting it.<\/p>\n<p>Casas\u00a0was convinced of the reality of Atlantis, having being strongly influenced by <a href=\"#FicinoM\">Marsilio Ficino<\/a>&#8216;s commentary on Plato&#8217;s Atlantis narrative.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/columbus-christopher-n\/\">Columbus<\/a> had been inspired by Plato\u2019s story of Atlantis. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kershaw-stephen-p-n\/\">S. P. Kershaw<\/a><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\">1410<\/a>.163]<\/sup> quoting from B. Keen<sup>[<a href=\"#A1500\">1500<\/a>]<\/sup> notes that Columbus&#8217; son, Ferdinand, <em>&#8221;explicity stated that his father never showed any interest in Plato&#8217;s tale.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bartolom\u00e9 himself saw America as Atlantis and in his <i>History of the Indies (<\/i><i>Historia de Las Indias)<\/i><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">1521<\/a>]<\/sup> begun in 1527, he drew up a list of parallels to support his contention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spedicato-emilio\/\">Emilio Spedicato<\/a>, who supports <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hispaniola-amended\/\">Hispaniola<\/a> as the location of Atlantis, was struck by the fact that de la Casas&#8217; description of island, matched so many details in Plato&#8217;s depiction of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas (1484-1566) was a Dominican friar, who chronicled the excesses of the Spanish invaders of America. He renounced his earlier views about slavery and spent decades fighting it. Casas\u00a0was convinced of the reality of Atlantis, having being strongly influenced by Marsilio Ficino&#8216;s commentary on Plato&#8217;s Atlantis narrative. He also claimed that Columbus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,2259,1586,2505,71,236,132,2517],"class_list":["post-21968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-atlantis","tag-bartolome-de-las-casas","tag-columbus","tag-emilio-spedicato","tag-hispaniola","tag-plato","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65952,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21968\/revisions\/65952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}