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Juan Bautista Muñoz

The first draft had been composed by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera in his Decadas (1511–25), which were supplemented shortly after by a small 1552 tract by Bartolomé de las Casas and the first part of the Historia (1535) of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (the rest of Las Casas and Oviedo would only appear in the 19th century; the life of Columbus by his son Ferdinand Columbus, only existed in an Italian edition (1571) at the time).

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Born in Museros (near Valencia) in 1745, Juan Bautista Muñoz was the third of four sons.

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Juan Bautista Muñoz (Museros, 12 June 1745 – Valencia, 1799) was an 18th-century Spanish philosopher and historian.

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