Background
Almost nothing is known about her before her marriage to Domenico Colombo in 1445 except that she was born in the hillside village of Monticellu on the then Genoese island of Corsica.
Almost nothing is known about her before her marriage to Domenico Colombo in 1445 except that she was born in the hillside village of Monticellu on the then Genoese island of Corsica.
Thus she was described as "Susanna from Fontanarossa" within the Val Bisagno, rather than Suzanna Fontarossa. Today the hilltop village of Fontanarossa, Goretto, Genova, Liguria, in the Val Trebbia (31 km inland from Genoa, at 44°35′1066″North 9°15′1880″East) and only 6 km beyond the watershed of the river Bisagno, has a marble stone with the inscription Susanna Fontanarossa, the mother of Christopher Columbus, was born in this village. ("In questo borgo nacque Susanna Fontanarossa, madre di Cristoforo Colombo").
Little is known about her after 1484.