It must be said that Christopher Columbus was responsible for the discovery of what he thought the new lands could bring rather than the discovery of the "New World ". Since most of his adventures took him and his followers to lands inhabited by trade-friendly people, where culture, politics, and religion were established, his discoveries were actually a means of supporting its model of well-being. I will analyze Beatriz Bodmer's article "Christopher Columbus and the Definition of America as Spoils", to argue that despite Columbus's quest for discovery, he did so with preconceived ideas that he would use to his advantage to convince others of what he had discovered and how these discoveries would benefit him. Christopher Columbus began many of his adventures with pre-existing sources and models from well-known philosophers and explorers, a mixture of invention, misrepresentation, and dissimulation (Bodmer, 10). Despite his knowledge of geography and cosmology, he used complex and contradictory models, providing factual and mythical reports of what he could expect to find on the islands he would soon explore. The most detailed information, credible on the basis of objectivity and accurate accounts, was described by Marco Polo. The book “Voyages” would become a resource used by Columbus to compare his discoveries, as it would here reveal the actual and potential problems identified by Marco Polo (Bodmer, 13,14). According to Polo, lands beyond the reach of commercial expeditions would belong to the first man who could reach them, according to the rules of the imperialist model of appropriation (Bodmer, 16). As Columbus imagines finding rich lands... middle of paper ...... he understood, by warnings of: "he understood that", "it seemed to him", or "he believed that" , this rendered what he had heard irrelevant, since it had no effect on the final message (Bodmer, 34-35). The consequences depicted in Columbus's writings are presented as objective and comprehensive rather than subjective and biased and he would use his literary privileges to create America using his imaginary model as he saw fit (Bodmer, 36.37). Columbus's use of imaginary models provided him with two functions, a personal one which allowed him to validate his theories and prove the correctness of his plan, and to confirm in his own estimation that he was the agent chosen by God and the second to justify his enterprises and establish his prestige (Bodmer, 39). Columbus's depiction of America was that of imagination but would be considered by historians and by "the civilization of America ».”.