Manuel da Silva Rosa

Manuel da Silva Rosa, 2007

Manuel da Silva Rosa (born 1961)[1] is a Portuguese American writer and independent researcher and lecturer on the life of Christopher Columbus. Rosa received a PhD in Insular and Atlantic History (XV-XX Centuries) from Azores University (April 12, 2023) with a dissertation titled CRISTOFORO COLOMBO versus CRISTÓBAL COLÓN Cristoforo  Colombo, the weaver from Genoa, was not Don Crsitóbal Colón, the navigator from Ibéria[2] and has published several controversial books and has been featured in Polish documentaries about Columbus and several other international media outlets.[citation needed]

In his latest book, Portugal na História, Uma Identidade (Lisbon, 2023) Professor João Paulo Oliveira e Costa describes Rosa's work as scrupulous, "No estudo recente de Manuel Rosa, que, respeitando escrupulosamente as fontes, deixa clara a impossibilidade de Colón ter nascido no seio de uma família de tecelões genoveses.”.[3]

Life

Rosa was born in Madalena, Pico Island, Portugal in 1961. He and his family emigrated to Boston in 1973.[1][4]

From 2008 to 2018 he worked as an IT analyst at Duke University.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Rosa, Manuel da Silva, 1961- at the Library of Congress Authority control file
  2. ^ "Reconhecimento de Habilitações Provas Académicas". uac.pt (in European Portuguese). Universidade dos Açores. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  3. ^ Oliveira e Costa, João Paulo (2022). Portugal na História - Uma Identidade. Temas e Debates. p. 402. ISBN 9789896446017.
  4. ^ "Livro 'Portugal e o Segredo de Colombo' de Manuel da Silva Rosa apresentado no Funchal" (in Portuguese). Diário de Notícias (Madeira). Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  5. ^ Butler, Karen. "Modern Day Sherlock Holmes Unearths New Evidence; Claims Columbus Was Secret Agent". Duke University. Retrieved 4 February 2015.