With Gaspar Gorricio, this man wrote an apocalyptic Book of Prophecies, and he published a self-extolling letter to his backer, Luis de Santangel.
With Gaspar Gorricio, this man wrote an apocalyptic Book of Prophecies, and he published a self-extolling letter to his backer, Luis de Santangel. He often feuded with the PinzÃ³n brothers, and wrote that he needed only fifty men. Guacanagari was the only one of five Taino chiefs to aid this man, who saved himself from an Arawak attack by predicting an eclipse. This man was arrested and replaced by Francisco de Bobadilla as governor of the Indies, after which he made the last of his four voyages. This Genoa-born man arranged for Isabella and Ferdinand to pay for his ships. For 10 points, name this guy who took the  Pinta, NiÃ±a, and Santa MarÃ­a to the Americas in 1492. 
With Gaspar Gorricio, this man wrote an apocalyptic Book of Prophecies, and he published a self-extolling letter to his backer, Luis de Santangel.
Christopher Columbus [or CristÃ³bal ColÃ³n; or Cristoforo Colombo] 