一歌伦布的出身及其初期的活动关于克利斯多福·哥伦布前半生的文献材料十分缺乏,只是在他初露头角并出洋远航以后才留下了一些航海日记和书信等物。尽管这些遗物并非完全可信,但仍不失为史学家的重要参考。至于哥伦布的出生地、出生年月、家世出身、青年时代的生活、学习和活动情况以及他的渡洋远航思想的萌芽和为实现这一理想所进行的斗争等等,对我们说来,都是十分模糊的,以致在许多书籍中,对哥伦布远航前的活动的叙述和年代的记载都是极不一致的。哥伦布本来出生于热纳亚,但在1931年热纳亚档案库中所收藏的文件公布以前,一些极端沙文主义学者,按照自己的需要,把它说成是加泰鲁尼亚、加利 The origin and early days of a Columub was lacking in documentation of the first half of Christopher Columbus’s life, leaving only a few diaries and letters after he first appeared on the scene and made a long voyage abroad. Although these artifacts are not entirely credible, it remains an important reference for historians. As to Columbus’s birthplace, birth date, family background, youth life, learning and activities, and his sprouting of the transatlantic vision and the struggle to realize this ideal, etc. So obscure that in many books the narratives and chronological accounts of pre-Columbian voyage activities are highly inconsistent. Columbus was originally born in Genoa, but prior to the publication of the documents held in the Genoa archive in 1931, some extremist chauvinists, according to their own needs, described it as the Catalan, Gali