Unpublished manuscript of an epic poem about Columbus’ voyages, discovered in Montserrat

Posdoc researcher Claudia García-Minguillán
Research | Culture

14/10/2025

A researcher finds the only known manuscript of ‘El Nuevo Mundo’ (The New World), an 18th-century text written by Portuguese diplomat Francisco Botelho de Moraes e Vasconcelos), in the Library of Montserrat. 

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