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Christopher Columbus, who sailed the Ocean Blue in 1492, and found the Americas (as the Vikings had before, but this seems to have been forgotten about by this time). Inaugurating the European conquest and settlement of the New World, much to the annoyance of some of the natives. He actually sailed under the Spanish flag, having secured the patronage of Ferdinand and Isabella. Here, however, he holds the combined flags of the Italian Maritime Republics, namely Venice, Genoa (his native city) Amalfi and Pisa. These flags wouldn't have been combined like this at the time, but they are historical individually, and they are combined like this on the modern flag of the Italian Navy. (There was no unified nation of Italy until the 19th century, but the project for which this was commissioned, '1500: The New Word' from DVG, required a representative Italian. I couldn't very well give Columbus the flag of Genoa only, as it is identical to that of England, which Drake already carries).

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Christopher Columbus, who sailed the Ocean Blue in 1492, and found the Americas (as the Vikings had before, but this seems to have been forgotten about by this time). Inaugurating the European conquest and settlement of the New World, much to the annoyance of some of the natives. He actually sailed under the Spanish flag, having secured the patronage of Ferdinand and Isabella. Here, however, he holds the combined flags of the Italian Maritime Republics, namely Venice, Genoa (his native city) Amalfi and Pisa. These flags wouldn't have been combined like this at the time, but they are historical individually, and they are combined like this on the modern flag of the Italian Navy. (There was no unified nation of Italy until the 19th century, but the project for which this was commissioned, '1500: The New Word' from DVG, required a representative Italian. I couldn't very well give Columbus the flag of Genoa only, as it is identical to that of England, which Drake already carries).