A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499

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[275] Monçaide and Gaspar da Gama, see Appendix E.

[276] A Bull of Alexander VI, dated Rome 1497, kalendas of June, allows King Manuel and his successors to keep possession of the countries conquered from the infidels, without prejudice to any prior claims of other Christian powers, and prohibits all kings, not possessing such claims, from disturbing King Manuel in the enjoyment of these rights. Finally, the Pope requires the King to establish the Christian religion in all the countries he may conquer (quoted from Alguns Documentos, p. 90).

[277] Canestrini, Delle relazioni tra Firenze e il Portugallo (Archivo Storico Italiano, Florence, 1846, App. III).

[278] Falcão, Livro de toda a fazenda, 1612, p. 144.

[279] See Parte III, Fonti italiane, vol. i, p. 215; vol. ii, p. 113.

[280] Delle Navigationi e Viaggi, i, Venice, 1550.

[281] Vita e lettere d’ Amerigo Vespucci, Firenze, 1745, p. L.

[282] Roteiro, 2º ed., pp. 124-7.

[283] Markham, The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci. London (Hakluyt Society), 1894, p. x.

[284] Il Milione di Marco Polo, Firenze, 1828, i, p. liii.