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5、 The late collector David Patson bought the letter for 875,000 dollars in 2004. After the investigations, his widow agreed to return the letter to the Vatican library. Officials said "The letter is now worth 1.2 million dollars"

4、 They believed that someone took the real letter out of its cover at the Vatican library and replaced it with a fake one. Archbishop John Lewis* guess it's the thief librarian he said we do not know exactly when the substitution took place. We would probably never know who the forger was. Their investigations found that Marino Massimo DeCaro, a well known Italian book theft, had sold the real letter to a New York book dealer. DeCaro is serving a 7 year prison sentence in Italy for stealing about 4,000 ancient books and manuscripts from Italy libraries and private collection.

3、 The year before, the same expert had studied the Columbus's letter in the Vatican library and suspected that it was a fake. One reason was that the stitching marks on the letters were not the same as those on the cover. The letter on the United States ,however, had the exact same stitching mark as the letter cover of the fake letter he had studied in the Vatican. The expert who was not identified contacted Homeland Security Art Investigators who began working with Vatican inspectors and rare book experts.

2、 His original letter was written in Spanish but several copies of a Latin translation were made to spread news of his discovery to the royal court of Europe and the Pope. One of the Latin letters copied by Steven ** in 1493 was put in the Vatican library. Known as the Columbus' letter , it has 8 pages each about 18 .5 centimeters by 12 centimeters. In 2011, an American expert in rare manuscripts received an similar looking letter. After receiving it he decided that it was real.

1、 A five hundred 25 year old copy of a letter by Cristoforo Columbus stolen from the Vatican has returned this week. A investigation by the United States Department Of Homeland Security and the Vatican located the letter. "We are returning it to its rightful owner."said the US ambassador to the Vatican,Callista Gingrich, at the ceremony in the Vatican library. Columbus wrote the letter to the king and queen of Spain after discovering the new world. He described what he had found and requested money for another trip.

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