[!--Note--] 9 ([return])
On the authority of Muñoz, quoted by Navarrete (iii, 317 n.). More recent researches have failed to discover these entries seen by Muñoz in the second book of Gastos de las armadas de las Indias of the "Casa de Contratacion"; and Mr. Harrisse, therefore, assumes that they never existed. This does not follow, and the evidence of so high an authority as Muñoz cannot so lightly be set aside. It is true, however, that the evidence of Muñoz is not conclusive without documents, and in that case the last date on which Vespucci is mentioned as being at Seville is January 12th, 1496.
[!--Note--] 10 ([return])
Pliny the elder was born thirty-one years after the death of Mecænas.
[!--Note--] 11 ([return])
"The sculptures of Polycletus and the paintings of Apelles." (Macaulay.)
[!--Note--] 12 ([return])
Letter to Solderini, p. 3.
[!--Note--] 13 ([return])
Chap. clxvi, end.
[!--Note--] 14 ([return])
Letter to Medici, p. 4.
[!--Note--] 15 ([return])
Letter to Solderini, Fourth Voyage, p. 53.
[!--Note--] 16 ([return])
Ibid., p. 56.
[!--Note--] 17 ([return])
Ibid., Second Voyage, p. 27.
[!--Note--] 18 ([return])
Sebastian Cabot only knew of the qualifications of Vespucci from the report of his nephew Giovanni and others. He said, in his evidence before the Badajoz Commission (13th November 1515), that Vespucci took the altitude at Cape St. Augustine, and that he was expert in taking observations. Giovanni Vespucci also said that his uncle took sights and kept a journal. Nuño Garcia gave similar evidence. (Extracts by Muñoz from the Registro de copias de cedulas de la Casa de la Contratacion, Nav., iii, 319.)