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Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century.
formation concerning that eventful circumnavigation. See J. A. Robertson
(Ed.), Pigafetta, Antonio. Magellan's Voyage around the World.
6. MacNutt, F. A. Letters of Cortes to Charles V. New York, 1908. This
English edition of the letters of Cortes contains a brief biographical sketch
with valuable notes. Cortes, to the last, appears to have believed in the
existence of a strait through which one might find a shorter way from
Spain
to the Indies of the East than was hitherto known. Sanuto Livio.
Geographia distincta. Venitia, 1588. Argument against the idea of an Asiatic
connection is advanced by Sanuto on the ground that the natives were
frightened at Cortes's horses. Asiatics were acquainted with the horse.
7. Estevan Gomes, who had sailed with Magellan, undertook in 1524,
under a royal commission, "the search for a new route leading to Cathay
between the land of Florida and the Baccalaos," says Peter Martyr. Decad
VI, lib. X.
8. In this volume, verso of seventh leaf, Franciscus states that in at-
tempting to prepare his description of a globe, he had collected all the
maps of the world he could find. He especially commends one attributed
to Maximilianus Transylvanus, and although constructed with much skill,
he could not agree with its geographical representations, admitting, however,
that many did accept the same, but objecting to the separation of
Calvacania (Mexico) from the eastern country because he believed it to
be joined to the kingdom of the Great Khan. See Harrisse. Discovery,
pp. 281, 548.
9. Stevenson. Maps illustrating early discovery. No. 10 of this series is
a reproduction of Maiollo's map in the size and in the colors of the original.
10. Harrisse. Discovery, p. 546.
11. Gallois, L. De Orontio Finaeo. Paris, 1890.
12. Hakluyt, R. Discourse on Western Planting. Ed. by Charles Deane,
with introduction by Leonard Wood. (In : Maine Historical Society, Col-
lections, second series, ii, and printed as Documentary History of the State
of Maine. Vol. II. Cambridge, 1877. Chap. XVII, §11, p. 116.)
In chapter 10 of the Discourse Hakluyt refers to the Locke map and its
configurations, which map clearly is a modified reproduction of Verrazano's
map of 1529.
13. Harrisse. Discovery, pp. 562-568.
14. Nordenskiold. Facsimile Atlas, p. 89. The author reproduces the
Finaeus map from a 1566 reprintj observing that he was unable to locate a
copy of the 1536 edition.
15. Schefer, C. H. A. Le discours de la navigation de Jean et Raoul
Parmentier. Paris, 1883. p. ix. The citation is from a contemporary source.
16. Vasari, G. Lives of the painters. Tr. by Mrs. J. Foster. London,
1850-1885. (In: Bohn Library, Vol. Ill, pp. 449-450.)
17. Blau, M. Memoires de la Societe Royal de Nancy. Nancy, 1836. pp.
xi-xiv, 107. An excellent reproduction of the globe in hemispheres accompanies
this article ; Vincent, R. P. Histoire de I'ancienne image miraculeuse
de Notre-Dame de Sion. Nancy, 1698. This work contains the first description
of the globe ; De Costa, B. F. The Nancy Globe. (In : The Magazine of
American History. New York, 1881. pp. 183-187.) A representation of the
globe in hemispheres is presented with this article, being a slightly reduced
copy of the Blau illustration ; Nordenskiold. Facsimile Atlas, p. 82 ; same,
Periplus, p. 159; Winsor. Narrative and Critical History. Vol. II, p. 433,
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