[264] Sabin, vol. ii. no. 6,440; Asher, no. 355; Trömel, no. 366; Muller (1872), no. 126.
[265] Sabin, vol. v. no. 21,418. Cf. Arana’s Bibliografía de obras anónimas, Santiago de Chile (1882), no. 143.
[266] Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,879. Harrisse (Notes on Columbus, p. 190) enumerates some of the earlier and later poems, plays, sonnets, etc., wholly or incidentally illustrating the career of Columbus. Cf. also his Fernand Colomb, p. 131, and Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire universel, vol. iv. The earliest mention of Columbus in English poetry is in Baptist Goodall’s Tryall of Trauell, London, 1630.
[267] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., i. 45; xii. 65.
[268] A French version, by C. M. Urano, was published at Paris in 1824; again in 1825. It is subjected to an examination, particularly as regards the charge of ingratitude against Ferdinand, in the French edition of Navarrete, i. 309 (Sabin, vol. ii. no. 6,464).
[269] There was a Spanish translation, made by José Garcia de Villalta, published in Madrid in 1833.
[270] In vol. iii., “De quelques faits relatifs à Colomb et à Vespuce.” In vol. i. he reviews the state of knowledge on the subject in 1833. The German text, Kritische Untersuchungen, was printed in a translation by Jules Louis Ideler, of which the best edition is that of Berlin, 1852, edited by H. Müller. Humboldt never completed this work. The parts on the early maps, which he had intended, were later cursorily touched in his introduction to Ghillany’s Behaim. Cf. D’Avezac’s Waltzemüller, p. 2, and B. de Xivrey’s Des premières relations entre l’Amerique et l’Europe d’après les recherches de A. de Humboldt, Paris, 1835,—taken from the Revue de Paris.
[271] History of Spanish Literature, i. 190.
[272] Harrisse (Notes on Columbus, p. 50) speaks of Prescott as “eloquent but imaginative.”
[273] The work was patronized by the Pope, and was reproduced in great luxury of ornamentation in 1879. An English abridgment and adaptation, by J. J. Barry, was republished in New York in 1869. A Dutch translation, Leven en reizen van Columbus, was printed at Utrecht in 1863.