Here's your annual reminder that Leif Erikson beat that Genoese war criminal to the Americas by about 500 years.
October 12, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Here's your annual reminder that Leif Erikson beat that Genoese war criminal to the Americas by about 500 years.
Genoese naval tapestries. In the sixteenth-century Villa del Principe, for the Doria family, and quite astonishing.
October 10, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Genoese naval tapestries. In the sixteenth-century Villa del Principe, for the Doria family, and quite astonishing.
Being Genoese doesn't count?
October 12, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Being Genoese doesn't count?
Lemon Italian is very much a certain Genoese fella
recently got a glimpse of intra-italian racism when one of my friends got called a “tomato italian” by a self-described “lemon italian”
October 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Lemon Italian is very much a certain Genoese fella
The Genoese made producing fine sailors their business (no one ask why, asking is anti-Italian discrimination)
October 12, 2026 at 1:59 AM
The Genoese made producing fine sailors their business (no one ask why, asking is anti-Italian discrimination)
Would be considerably more accurate to ID Columbus as Genoese rather than “Italian”
October 12, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Would be considerably more accurate to ID Columbus as Genoese rather than “Italian”
Here is to Indigenous Peoples day
And it is forever fuck that evil Genoese genociding colonizer.
And it is forever fuck that evil Genoese genociding colonizer.
October 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Here is to Indigenous Peoples day
And it is forever fuck that evil Genoese genociding colonizer.
And it is forever fuck that evil Genoese genociding colonizer.
Ooh the Genoese folks are gonna be ruffled about this one lol
October 12, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Ooh the Genoese folks are gonna be ruffled about this one lol
Animals in Genoese palaces today. If I were a faun I would, I’m sure, need to get my hooves gilded.
October 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Animals in Genoese palaces today. If I were a faun I would, I’m sure, need to get my hooves gilded.
🗃️ Happy Indigenous People's Day, and not "Evil Genocidal 15th-century Genoese Maniac Day."
Just a reminder that no one needs to claim that guy!
Just a reminder that no one needs to claim that guy!
🗃️ In Genoa a couple years ago I saw this sculpture by Bruno Catalano, which says much more about what it means to be Genoese, or "Italian" than the fake outrage of Chris Rufo and the never-ending saga of Christopher Columbus apologism.
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October 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
🗃️ Happy Indigenous People's Day, and not "Evil Genocidal 15th-century Genoese Maniac Day."
Just a reminder that no one needs to claim that guy!
Just a reminder that no one needs to claim that guy!
Given tomorrow, I must point out as I always do that the American Italian support for Columbus is proof of their stupidity because most of them are Sicilian descended and they're going to bat for a Genoese guy who was too much of a shithead for a city perverts, pedophiles, and slavers.
October 11, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Given tomorrow, I must point out as I always do that the American Italian support for Columbus is proof of their stupidity because most of them are Sicilian descended and they're going to bat for a Genoese guy who was too much of a shithead for a city perverts, pedophiles, and slavers.
Portrait of a Genoese Nobleman https://www.wikiart.org/en/tintoretto/portrait-of-a-genoese-nobleman
October 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Portrait of a Genoese Nobleman https://www.wikiart.org/en/tintoretto/portrait-of-a-genoese-nobleman
We don’t even know for sure that he was Italian (Genoese).
October 12, 2026 at 11:39 AM
We don’t even know for sure that he was Italian (Genoese).
“…all the Italian vote”—not this Genoese one.
October 9, 2026 at 3:45 PM
“…all the Italian vote”—not this Genoese one.
Also Leif Erikson has some thoughts for the Genoese wanderer about which European was here first… 🙃
October 12, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Also Leif Erikson has some thoughts for the Genoese wanderer about which European was here first… 🙃
DNA evidence suggests he was Jewish, masquerading as a Genoese.
October 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
DNA evidence suggests he was Jewish, masquerading as a Genoese.
My Sicilian great grandmother called Columbus a Genoese Fishmonger. Even among Italians this ain’t a vote winner
October 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
My Sicilian great grandmother called Columbus a Genoese Fishmonger. Even among Italians this ain’t a vote winner
The combo of “strunz” and “supposedly Genoese, who didn’t speak any italic language” is so so so Italian 🤣
100% approved 👍🏻
100% approved 👍🏻
October 13, 2026 at 7:32 AM
The combo of “strunz” and “supposedly Genoese, who didn’t speak any italic language” is so so so Italian 🤣
100% approved 👍🏻
100% approved 👍🏻
Good Morning Gonz! Yez I heartily second that greeting and those sentiments which are very much worth celebrating! As opposed to the ravagement caused by the drunken, hopelessly lost Genoese reprobate who shall not be named.😡
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October 12, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Good Morning Gonz! Yez I heartily second that greeting and those sentiments which are very much worth celebrating! As opposed to the ravagement caused by the drunken, hopelessly lost Genoese reprobate who shall not be named.😡
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i will be dead and buried before i acknowledge the Genoese as ""Italian""
name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus
October 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
i will be dead and buried before i acknowledge the Genoese as ""Italian""
not a lot of people know this is how you say his name in proper Genoese dialect
October 12, 2026 at 1:55 PM
not a lot of people know this is how you say his name in proper Genoese dialect
This looks like a promising seminar. I've been using transcription tools on 15th century Genoese financial records and I'm interested to compare with the results of @lauramorreale.bsky.social . #medievalsky #earlymodern
Excited to report on some work I did with @sims-mss.bsky.social & some tough-to-read but very rewarding historical sources. Come hear me talk about transcription tools now at our disposal, & what is required to use them (hint: it's not computer fairy dust...) www.library.upenn.edu/events/schoe...
Using Handwritten Text Recognition for Rich and Abundant Historical Source Collections: The Case of Medieval Italian Financial Records
Laural Morreale (Independent Scholar) will describe how to train Handwritten Text Recognition models to read difficult sources like the Italian financial records and will outline the costs, potential ...
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October 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
This looks like a promising seminar. I've been using transcription tools on 15th century Genoese financial records and I'm interested to compare with the results of @lauramorreale.bsky.social . #medievalsky #earlymodern
Nah, we're like, quite sure he was from Genoa. The whole conspiracy that he might be Spanish originated centuries after his passing, and has very lacklustre evidence behind it. Still, to call him Italian instead of Genoese is farcical. It'd be like calling Julius Caesar Italian instead of Roman.
October 12, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Nah, we're like, quite sure he was from Genoa. The whole conspiracy that he might be Spanish originated centuries after his passing, and has very lacklustre evidence behind it. Still, to call him Italian instead of Genoese is farcical. It'd be like calling Julius Caesar Italian instead of Roman.
Columbus wasn’t even Italian. The Genoese don’t count. Happy Giancarlo Esposito day to a real Italian American.
October 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Columbus wasn’t even Italian. The Genoese don’t count. Happy Giancarlo Esposito day to a real Italian American.
Yeah. Genoese and devoutly Catholic as far as anyone can tell, though some people haved tried to claim his signature references the kaddish or that him speaking some degree of Catalan is proof he actually spoke Ladino.
October 12, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Yeah. Genoese and devoutly Catholic as far as anyone can tell, though some people haved tried to claim his signature references the kaddish or that him speaking some degree of Catalan is proof he actually spoke Ladino.