[188] Terzo volume delle navigationi et viaggi, etc., Venice, 1556. His name is, Latinized, Ramusius.
[189] Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, p. 46. A list of the Contents is given in the Carter-Brown Catalogue (vol. i. p. 181), and in Leclerc (no. 484), where a set (1554, 1583, 1565) is priced at 250 francs. Of interest in connection with the present History, there are in the first volume of Ramusio the voyages of Da Gama, Vespucius, and Magellan, as well as matter of interest in connection with Cabot (see Vol. III. p. 24); in the second volume (1559), the travels of Marco Polo, the voyage of the Zeni and of Cabot. The first edition of the first volume was published in 1550; Ramusio’s name does not appear. A second edition came out in 1554. Cf. Murphy Catalogue, nos. 2,096-2,098; Cooke, no. 2,117.
[190] Born in 1485-1486; died in 1557. There is an alleged portrait of Ramusio in the new edition of Il viaggio di Giovan Leone, etc. (Venice, 1857), the only volume of it published. The portrait of him by Paul Veronese in the hall of the Great Council was burned in 1557; and Cicogna (Biblioteca Veneziana, ii. 310) says that the likeness now in the Sala dello Scudo is imaginary.
[191] Cf. also Camus, Mémoire sur De Bry, p. 8; Humboldt, Examen critique; Hallam, Literature of Europe; Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 304; Brunet, vol. iv. col. 1100; Carter-Brown, vol. i. no. 195 Clarke’s Maritime Discovery, p. x, where Tiraboschi’s account of Ramusio is translated; and H. H. Bancroft, Mexico, i. 282. Ternaux mentions a second edition in 1564; but Harrisse could find no evidence of it (Bibl. Amer. Vet., p. xxxiii). There was a well-known second edition of the third volume in 1565 (differing in title only from the 1556 edition), which, with a first volume of 1588 and a second volume of 1583, is thought to make up the most desirable copy; though there are some qualifications in the case, since the 1606 edition of the third volume is really more complete.
[192] Carter-Brown, vol. i. no. 275.
[193] Cf. Carter-Brown, vol. i. nos. 287, 288, 299, 337; Sunderland, nos. 8,569, 8,570; Brinley, no. 44; Murphy, no. 1,709; Court, no. 241.
[194] Court, no. 242.
[195] Carter-Brown, i. 386; ii. 12; Brinley, no. 45.
[196] The different editions in the various languages are given in Sabin, xii. 282.
[197] Sabin, vol. viii. no. 32,004.