[91] [There is an interesting memoir on the history of the successive French flags in the Revue des questions historiques, x. 148, 404; xvii. 506.—Ed.]
[92] For Mr. Brevoort’s account and description of this map, see his Verrazano the Navigator, pp. 122-139.
[93] [The Editor has traced the cartographical history of the Western Sea in a Note following this chapter.—Ed.]
[94] Verrazano the Explorer, pp. 43-63.
[95] Atti, xv. 169-176. In a “revised extract from the Verrazano map, 1881,” prepared after the publication of his book, Dr. De Costa accepts all, or very nearly all, of M. Desimoni’s corrections, which are, however, not of much moment.
[96] [These legends are shown on the fac-simile of Desimoni’s reproduction, given on a later page.—Ed.]
[97] M. Desimoni’s paper is printed in the Atti of the Genoese Society, xv. 355-378. Mr. Brevoort was the first in this country to call attention to this Maggiolo map, in the Magazine of American History for February, 1882. He furnished a second article on the subject in the number of the following July. This map is given on a later page.
[98] Oviedo de la natural hystoria de las Indias. Con preuilegio de la S. C. C. M. On the verso of the titlepage, Sumario de la natural y general istoria de las Indias, que escriuio Gōçalo Fernādez de Oviedo, alias de Valdes, natura de la villa de Madrid, vezino y regidor de la cibdad de santa Maria del antigua del Darien, etc. The colophon states that the book was printed, at the author’s cost, by “Remō de Petras,” at Toledo, and finished Feb. 15, 1526. There is a copy in Harvard College Library.
[99] The Decades of the newe Worlde, or west India, ... wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden. 4to, London, 1555. This volume contains Martyr’s first three decades, a translation of Oviedo’s Sumario, and parts of Gomara, Ramusio, Pigafetta, Americus Vespucius, Münster, and others. My citation is from fols. 213, 214.
[100] De orbe nouo Petri Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanensis Protonotarii Cæsaris Senatoris decades. Folio, Complutum (Alcala), 1530.