[43] Navigationi, iii. 420-423.
[44] Collections, 2d ser., i. 37-68.
[45] Divers Voyages (Hakluyt Society’s ed.), pp. 55-90; Principal Navigations, iii. 295-300; again in the 1809 edition. Hakluyt omits this narrative in his single volume of Navigations, published in 1589. [On the Hakluyt publications, see Vol. III., Index.—Ed.]
[46] Pages 197-228. It is also reprinted by Murphy in his Verrazzano, and by Conway Robinson in his Discoveries. The Italian was given in 1853 in the Archivio Storico Italiano, v. ix, Appendix, with an essay on Verrazano by Arcangeli.
[47] Lescarbot, Charlevoix, and others speak of it. The earliest French mention in print is said to be that of Belleforest, in his Histoire universelle du monde, 1570. It was repeated in his 1575 edition; and more at length in his Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde. Ribault, whose expedition took place in 1562, and Laudonnière (1564-1565) both speak of it. But the work of the latter was not printed until 1586, and it has been supposed that the editio princeps of Ribault is the English translation published in 1563. Hakluyt’s statement, in his Discourse concerning Westerne Planting (Maine Historical Society, 2d ser., ii. 20), that Ribault’s narrative was “extant in printe bothe in Frenche and Englishe,” makes it quite possible, however, that the mention in Belleforest is not the earliest printed one. Cf. Shea’s Charlevoix, i. 107.
Among the English authors Hakluyt should be particularly mentioned. He speaks in the Dedication of his Divers Voyages (Hakluyt Society’s ed., p. 11) of Verrazano having been “thrise on that coast” [the American], and of an “olde excellent mappe which he gaue to king Henrie the eight;” giving also a representation of Lok’s map, made “according to Verazanus plat.” In his Discourse on Westerne Planting, first published by the Maine Historical Society in 1877, he says (pp. 113, 114): “There is a mightie large olde mappe in parchemente, made, as yt shoulde seme, by Verarsanus ... nowe in the custodie of Mr. Michael Locke;” and again, of “an olde excellent globe in the Queenes privie gallory at Westminster, which also semeth to be of Verarsanus makinge.”
Herrera condenses the account of the voyage from the letter published by Ramusio; De Barcia (Ensayo chronologico para la historia general de la Florida, 1723) also gives it. This latter identifies Verrazano with the corsair, Juan Florin. Dr. Kohl gives an interesting account of Verrazano’s voyage, with a valuable Appendix on maps, in the eighth chapter of his Discovery of Maine.
[48] [See accounts of Mr. Smith in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1873, p. 89, and the American Antiquarian Society’s Proceedings, April, 1871. There has been some discussion of the controversy in the same publication by Charles Deane and J. D. Washburn, April and October, 1876. Cf. Duyckinck, Cyc. of Amer. Lit. Supplement, pp. 7, 157.—Ed.]
[49] See Judge Daly’s letter in the Journal of the American Geographical Society, vol. iii. p. 80.
[50] [Harrisse has enumerated the sources in his Cabots, p. 279. De Costa’s bibliography first appeared in the Magazine of American History, January, 1881.—Ed.]