{"id":30880,"date":"2016-08-10T10:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T09:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=30880"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:13:47","slug":"columbus-ferdinand-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/columbus-ferdinand-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus, Ferdinand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ferdinand<\/strong><strong> Columbus <\/strong><strong>(1488-1539)<\/strong> was the second son of Columbus and toiled as bibliographer and cosmographer<strong>. <\/strong>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/casas-bartolome-de-las-n\/\">Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas<\/a> and Ferdinand Columbus are reported by Beatriz <strong>P<\/strong>astor Bodmer <em>&#8220;to refer at length to Plato and Aristotle&#8217;s description of Atlantis, the island presumed to lie somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.&#8221;<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\"><sup>1251<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Stephen P. Kershaw <sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\"><sup>1410.163<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>, quoting from B.Keen <sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\"><sup>1500<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> notes that Columbus&#8217;s son Ferdinand <em>&#8220;explicitly stated that his father never showed any interest in Plato&#8217;s tale.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539) was the second son of Columbus and toiled as bibliographer and cosmographer. Both Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas and Ferdinand Columbus are reported by Beatriz Pastor Bodmer &#8220;to refer at length to Plato and Aristotle&#8217;s description of Atlantis, the island presumed to lie somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.&#8221;[1251] Nevertheless, Stephen P. Kershaw [1410.163], [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,1586,4801,4800],"class_list":["post-30880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantic","tag-bartolome-de-las-casas","tag-beatriz-pastor-bodmer","tag-ferdinand-columbus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30880","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=30880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66056,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30880\/revisions\/66056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}