[187] Sull’importanza d’un manoscritto inedito della Biblioteca Imperiale di Vienna per verificare quale fu la prima isola scoperta dal Colombo, ... Con una carta geographica, Vienna, 1869, sixteen pages. Varnhagen’s paper first appeared in the Anales de la Universedad de Chile, vol. xxvi. (January, 1864).
[188] Evora, 1545, and often reprinted. Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, p. 45; Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 265.
[189] A fac-simile of Irving’s manuscript of his account of this reception is given in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. xx. 201.
[190] Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella (1873), ii. 170; Major’s Select Letters, p. lxvi; Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., Additions, p. ix.
[191] Irving’s Columbus, app. xxxii.
[192] Humboldt (Examen critique, ii. 279-294) notes the letters referring to Columbus; and Harrisse, (Notes on Columbus, p. 129) reprints these letters, with translations. In the 1670 edition the Columbus references are on pp. 72-77, 81, 84, 85, 88-90, 92, 93, 96, 101, 102, 116.
[193] There are eight hundred and sixteen in all (1488 to 1525), and about thirty of them relate to the New World. He died in 1526.
[194] Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella (1873), ii. 76.
[195] Literature of Europe, vol. i. cap. 4, § 88.
[196] Ferdinand and Isabella (1873), ii. 507, and p. 77. Referring to Hallam’s conclusion, he says: “I suspect this acute and candid critic would have been slow to adopt it had he perused the correspondence in connection with the history of the times, or weighed the unqualified testimony borne by contemporaries to Martyr’s minute accuracy.”