Christopher Columbus letter makes return to Venice by Delaware brokers

Federal investigators from Delaware closed the books on a decades-old worldwide thriller this month at a ceremony in Rome.

The crime concerned daring forgeries on the Vatican, worldwide smugglers, a secretive world of rich e book collectors, and long-lost Fifteenth-century certain editions of letters Christopher Columbus despatched from the New World.

In libraries from Barcelona to the Vatican, thieves had taken 4 of the final unique editions of those Christopher Columbus letters identified to exist, changing them with intelligent forgeries that took many years to find.