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20 MARCO POLO " 40 OJEDA'S FIRST VOYAGE " 130 ROUTES OF THE DISCOVERERS " 166 NORTH AMERICA FROM THE GLOBE OF JOHANN SCHOeNER " 244 AUTHORITIES ON AMERIGO VESPUCCI XVIth CENTURY. Vespucci's letters to Soderini and L. P. F. de' Medici, reproduced in this volume. XVIIth CENTURY. Herrera, in his _Historia General_ (etc.), Madrid, 1601; "probably followed Las Casas, whose MSS. he had." XVIIIth CENTURY. Dandini, A. M., _Vita e Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci_, Florence, 1745. Canovai, Stanislac, _Elogia di Amerigo Vespucci_, 1778. XIXth CENTURY. Navarrete, M. F. de, _Noticias Exactas de Americo Vespucio_, contained in his Coleccion, Madrid, 1825-1837. Humboldt, Alexander von, _Examen Critique de l'Histoire de la Geographie de Nouveau Continent_, Paris, 1836-1839. Lester, C. Edwards, _The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius_, New York, 1846; reprinted, in de luxe edition, New York, 1903. Varnhagen, F. A., Baron de Porto Seguro, _Amerigo Vespucci, son Caractere, ses Ecrits_ (etc.), Lima, 1865; Vienna, 1874. A collection of monographs called by Fiske "the only intelligent modern treatise on the life and voyages of this navigator." Fiske, John, _The Discovery of America_, Boston, 1899; contains an exhaustive critical examination of Vespucci's voyages to which the reader should refer for more extended information. AMERIGO VESPUCCI[1] I YOUNG AMERIGO AND HIS FAMILY 1451-1470 Cradled in the valley of the Arno, its noble architecture fitly supplementing its numerous natural charms, lies the Tuscan city of Florence, the birthplace of immortal Dante, the early home of Michael Angelo, the seat of the Florentine Medici, the scene of Savonarola's triumphs and his tragic end. Fame has come to many sons of Florence, as poets, statesmen, sculptors, painters, travellers; but perhaps none has achieved a distinction so unique, apart, and high as the subject of this volume, after whom the continents of the western hemisphere were named. Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, March 9, 1451, just one hundred and fifty years after Dante was banished from the city in which both first saw the light. The Vespucci family had then resided in that city more than two hundred years, having come from Peretola, a little town adjacent, where the name was hig
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