On Wednesday, July 19, 2023 in Rome, at the Ministry of Culture, a ceremony will take place to return an incunabulum from 1493 with which Christopher Columbus, on his return from the Americas, describes his voyage to the Spanish royalty. The bibliographic document was stolen before 1988 from the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.

Following in-depth investigations conducted since 2018 by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in collaboration with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, the artifact was seized and confiscated from a Dallas collector who did not contest the measures after being made aware of the irrefutable illicit provenance of the incunabulum in his possession.

U.S. investigators will hand over the historical document to the Carabinieri dell'arte who, in agreement with the judiciary, will see to its return to the Biblioteca Marciana.