Abstract
St n 1492 Europe discovered its past and future. The undiscovered was the future, and once it was invented and found by three small boats and their Admiral, the undiscovered became the newly discovered future of Europe and the Americas. Christopher Columbus and the explorers of the age were looking for the stuff of a European imagination, undiscovered, in order to find a future for Europe and for themselves. The newly discovered continent and islands provided a windowful of images for the European to remember and create his past, and wonder in awe at a real, and presently imagined, future. Such images and imaginings were named marvels by Christopher Columbus. This paper examines the origin of the marvel in Columbus' writing, how it is used in the first text widely disseminated in Europe about America, the Letter to Luis de Santingel, and how this figure of marvelousness multiplies in texts about America, transforming an old I, an old subject, into a
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