A Watergate-style coverup surrounding Columbus' initial voyage. FROM ANCIENT EGYPTIANS to extraterrestrials, popular literature has identified various personages with the discovery of the Americas. Absent from this familiar list was the pope. Italian journalist and author Ruggero Marino claims that Pope Innocent VIII sponsored Christopher Columbus' first voyage. And, in the fashion of the later-published "Da Vinci Code," he has written Cristoforo Colombo ed Il Papa Tradito (available only in Italian) stating his case. Using a blend of conjectures, coincidences, curiosities and certainties, the author paints a picture of a Watergate-style coverup surrounding Columbus' initial voyage. The tale involves many...