The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career
Amerigo Vespucci; Bartolomé de las Casas; Christopher Columbus
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  • Padron Real, chart so called, corrected periodically, to be kept at Seville for reference, [65]
  • Parchi (see Fishery)
  • Paria, visited by Hojeda, [x], [30], [31];
    • discovered by Columbus, [68], [71], [73], [75], [79], [80];
    • gulf of, [32];
    • on the map of Juan de la Cosa, [xi];
    • Pinzon and Solis sailed towards, [xxxiv]
  • Parias, name of a province visited by Vespucci in his alleged first voyage, [17];
    • question of the names Parias and Lariab, [xxiii], [xxx], [74] n., [87]
  • Pearls, [29], [48], [76], [91]
  • Pedrarias, [xiv];
    • Giovanni Vespucci as pilot with, [xv]
  • Penalosa, Francisco de, uncle of Las Casas, [77]
  • Perez, Nicolas, evidence of, [109]
  • Pilot Major, appointment of Vespucci, [xiv], [64];
    • to teach the pilots, [64]
  • Pilots, with Hojeda, [31];
    • orders respecting, [64], [65];
    • qualifications of, [ix];
    • Giovanni Vespucci appointed, [xv]
  • Pinelo, Treasurer, receipt for Vespucci, of money to pay sailors, [5]
  • Pintigron, in voyage of Pinzon and Solis, [xxxiii], [109], [110] (see Martyr, Peter)
  • Pintor, Juan, a deserter from Hojeda, [104], [106]
  • Pinzon, Vicente Yañez, evidence at the lawsuit, [xxxii], [109], [111], [113];
    • direction of voyage, [xxxiv];
    • projected voyage with Vespucci, [xiii];
    • date of voyage with Solis, [xxxiii]
  • Pliny, quoted by Vespucci, [vii], [2], [48]
  • Policletus, [vii], [48]
  • Portugal, King of (Manoel), sent for Vespucci, [xi], [34] (see Vespucci);
    • Vespucci hoped the King would return his journal, [51]
  • Portuguese called Española by the name of Antilla or Antiglia, [xxxvi] n., [29] n., [107];
    • archives silent respecting Vespucci, [xl];
    • voyages of Vespucci with, [xl]-[xliii], [34]-[56]
  • Ptolemy, Vespucci mentions him as having called Cape Verde the "Ethiopic Promontory", [43]
  • Puerto Flechado, [x]
  • Réné II, Duke of Lorraine, Latin edition of the Vespucci letter dedicated to, [xii], [xviii], [1] n., [69], [71], [84]
  • Ringmann, [xliii]
  • Rivers, inundated mouths, at landfall of Hojeda's voyage, [22], [32]
  • Robertson, opinion of Vespucci, [i]
  • Roldan, Bartolomé, with Hojeda, [71]
  • Roldan, Francisco, dispute with Hojeda, [34], [78], [80]-[81];
    • report to Columbus, [81];
    • sent by Columbus to watch Hojeda, [98];
    • outwits Hojeda, [105];
    • evidence as to killed and wounded in Hojeda's voyage, [xxix], [81]
  • Roquemes, in the Canaries, [96]
  • Salvador, one of Roldan's boat's crew, [105]
  • St. Augustine, Cape, [xli], [viii] n., [38], [39]
  • San Bartolomé, Gulf, [33]
  • San Domingo, Bartolomé Roldan a citizen of, [71];
    • Andres de Morales at, [96];
    • news of Hojeda brought to Columbus at, [98], [101];
    • arrival of ships of Hojeda at San Domingo does not refer to the first voyage, when Vespucci was with him, [30] n. (see Española, Antilla)
  • San Lucar, [69], [75]
  • San Roman, Cape, [33]
  • Santa, isles, name given by Columbus, [68], [70]
  • Santa Maria, Port of, [70]
  • Santarem, Visconde, found no trace of the name of Vespucci in Portuguese archives, [xi], [xl] n.
  • Serra Leone, [xlii], [41], [53]
  • Seville, Vespucci at, [iv], [xi], [xii], [34], [35];
    • pilots to be taught at, [64];
    • Hojeda known at, [70], [78];
    • Ledesma born at, [110] n.
  • Soderini, Pietro, Gonfaloniere of Florence, [xii], [xviii], [1], [2]
  • Solis, Juan Diaz de, voyage with Pinzon, [xiv], [xxxii], [xxxiii], [107], [110], [111], [113];
    • pension of Vespucci's widow paid out of salary, [xv]
  • South Georgia, supposed to have been sighted by Vespucci, [xlii] n., [40]
  • Stars, observations in the South Hemisphere, [39], [41];
    • southern stars, [40];
    • Canopus, [49]
  • Tampico, Varnhagen places Vespucci at, [xxxvi]
  • Trees in Brazil, [xli] (see Cassia, Canna fistola, Brazil)
  • Trinidad, isle discovered by Columbus, [68], [72];
    • visited by Hojeda, [30], [32]
  • Tristan d'Acunha, [xlii] n., [40] n.
  • Truxillo, Diego de, detained by Hojeda, [104]
  • Ulysses, death of, in Dante, referred to by Vespucci, [3]
  • Ursa Major and Minor lost sight of, [39], [40]
  • Varnhagen, his work to rehabilitate Vespucci, [ii], [xxvi], [xxvii], [xxxviii], [xliv];
    • purchase of Italian edition of Vespucci's letter, [xix];
    • his theory of Vespucci's first voyage, [xxvi];
    • theory that Iti was Bermuda disproved, [xxvii];
    • theory about Little Venice disproved, [xxviii];
    • theory about Lariab, [xxx];
    • theory about the voyage of Pinzon and Solis disproved, [xxxii]-[xxxiv];
    • theory that Vespucci remained out after Hojeda returned disproved, [30] n.
  • Vela, Cabo de la, Hojeda's furthest point, [x], [33], [90], [96], [97];
    • on the map of Juan de la Cosa, [xi]
  • Velasquez, Juan, [81], [100]
  • Venecia, Gulf of, [31], [33]
  • Venezuela, [x], [33], [91], [96], [98]
  • Venice, village built on piles like, [xxviii], [12], [86]
  • Veragua, [109], [110], [113]
  • Verde, Cape, [xli], [43], [53]
  • Vespucci, Amerigo, texts of his letters published by Varnhagen, [ii];
    • life by Bandini, [ii];
    • life by Canovai, [iii];
    • Latin letter to his father, [iii]; family, [iii], [iv];
    • employed by Medici and sent to Spain, employed to wind up affairs of Berardi, [iv];
    • provision contractor, [v];
    • resolution to give up commercial pursuits and go to sea, [vi], [2], [3], [71];
    • address to Soderini, [1];
    • promoter of the voyage of Hojeda, [vii], [21];
    • smattering of classical learning, [vii];
    • character, [viii];
    • no claim to be considered a pilot, [ix];
    • not mentioned in Portuguese archives, [xi];
    • interview with Columbus, [xii], [xiii], [57];
    • spurious letters of, [iii] n., [xii] n.;
    • book alleged to have been written by, [xxi], [11], [16], [39], [51], [55];
    • summary of alleged first voyage, [xxii];
    • course and distance, first voyage, [4];
    • excursion into the interior, [15];
    • statement as to latitudes and distances run, [17];
    • sojourn in the "finest harbour in the world", [18];
    • account of proceedings at Iti, [19]-[21];
    • return from first voyage, [21];
    • second voyage, [vi], [21];
    • adventure on the Isle of Giants, [27], [28];
    • arrival at "Antiglia" (Española), [29];
    • complaint of treatment at Española, [30], [83], [107];
    • with Hojeda, [viii], [31], [69], [71], [72], [73], [85];
    • sent for by the King of Portugal, [34];
    • sailed from Lisbon, [35];
    • return, [41];
    • letter to Medici, [42];
    • boasts of his knowledge, of cosmography, [44];
    • fanciful account of stars, [50];
    • desire that the King of Portugal would return his journal, [51];
    • departure on last Portuguese voyage, [52];
    • abuse of his commander, [53], [56];
    • mistake of Vianelo respecting, [xiii], [58];
    • letter of naturalization, [xiii], [61];
    • appointment as chief pilot, [xiv], [63]-[67];
    • Las Caras on his first voyage, [68], [69];
    • injury to Columbus, [82], [83], [85];
    • accounts of natives fictitious, [86];
    • account of visit to Española false, [96], [107], [108];
    • projected voyage with Pinzon, [xiii];
    • Hispanicisms in his letter, [xix], [xx];
    • silence respecting comrades, [xx];
    • evidence against first voyage, [xxv], [xxxiv], [xxxv]-[xxxvi];
    • death of, [xv]
  • Vespucci, Nastagio (Anastasio), father of Amerigo, [iii]
  • Vespucci, Antonio, brother, [iv], [xv], [56]
  • Vespucci, Bartolomeo, nephew, [iv]
  • Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio, friar of St. Mark, master of Amerigo and Soderini, [iii], [2]
  • Vespucci, Geronimo, brother, [iv]
  • Vespucci, Giovanni, nephew, became a pilot, [iv];
    • evidence as to his uncle's observations, [viii] n.;
    • appointed pilot, [xv];
    • Peter Martyr intimate with, [xxxviii]
  • Vianelo, Hieronimo, Venetian Ambassador, letter giving an account of a voyage of Juan de la Cosa, [xiii], [58]-[61]
  • Voyages (see Four Voyages)
  • Waldseemüller, Martin, or Hylacomylus, the editor of Cosmographiæ Introductio, suggested the name of America, [xviii], [xliii]
  • Winds, term used for courses, [19]
  • Xaragua, Hojeda at, [83], [100];
    • Roldan at, [100], [103]
  • Yaquimo, port in Española, Hojeda at, [33], [80], [97], [98]
  • Yuca, [xxiii], [xxx], [11], [13], [14] (see Juca)
  • Yucatan, [iii], [xxxii]