[483] Carter-Brown, ii. 114. It was reprinted at Florence in 1859, and at Milan in 1865.
[484] Santarem enumerates various others; cf. Childe’s translation, p. 34 etc. Bandini (Vita e lettere di Vespucci, cap. vii.) also enumerates the early references.
[485] Though Guicciardini died in 1540, his Historia d’Italia (1494-1532) did not appear at Florence till 1564, and again at Venice in 1580. Segni, who told the history of Florence from 1527 to 1555, and died in 1559, was also late in appearing.
[486] Dec. i. lib. iv. cap. 2; lib. vii. c. 5.
[487] Robertson based his disbelief largely upon Herrera (History of America, note xxii.).
[488] Carter-Brown, vol. iii. no. 793; Murphy, no. 142; Leclerc, no. 2,473. There was a German translation in 1748 (Carter-Brown, iii. 866; Sabin, vol. i. no. 3,150), with annotations, which gave occasion to a paper by Caleb Cushing in the North American Review, xii. 318.
[489] Santarem reviews this literary warfare of 1788-1789 (Childe’s translation, p. 140).
[490] Sabin (Dictionary, iii. 312) gives the following contributions of Canovai: (1) Difensa d’Amerigo Vespuccio, Florence, 1796 (15 pp). (2) Dissertazione sopra il primo viaggio d’Amerigo Vespucci alle Indie occidentali, Florence, 1809. (3) Elogio d’Amerigo Vespucci ... con una dissertazione giustificativa, Florence, 1788; con illustrazioni ed aggiunte [Cortona], 1789; no place, 1790, Florence, 1798. (4) Esame critico del primo viaggio d’Amerigo Vespucci al nuovo mondo, Florence, 1811. Cf. Il Marquis Gino Capponi, Osservazioni sull’esame critico del primo viaggio d’Amerigo Vespucci al nuovo mondo, Florence, 1811. Leclerc, no. 400; copy in Harvard College Library. (5) Lettera allo Stampat. Sig. P. Allegrini a nome dell’ autore dell’elogio prem. di Am. Vespucci, Florence, 1789. (6) Monumenti relativi al giudizio pronunziato dall’Accademia Etrusca di Cortona di un Elogio d’Amerigo Vespucci, Florence, 1787. (7) Viaggi d’ Amerigo Vespucci con la vita, l’elogio e la dissertazione giustificativa, Florence, 1817; again, 1832. There was an English version of the Elogio printed at New Haven in 1852. Canovai rejects some documents which Bandini accepted; as, for instance, the letter in Da Gama, of which there is a version in Lester, p. 313. Cf. also Varnhagen, Amerigo Vespucci, pp. 67, 69, where it is reprinted.
[491] Irving got his cue from this, and calls the voyage of 1497 pure invention. The documents which Navarrete gives are epitomized in Lester, p. 395, and reprinted in Varnhagen’s Nouvelles recherches, p. 26.
[492] Childe’s translation, p. 24.