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America. (In: Fifteenth Annual Report
of the American Scenic and His-
torical Preservation Society. New York, 1910.)
There is an extensive Verrazano literature. The original letter written
by the explorer to Francis I of France, under whose auspices he had sailed
on his voyage of discovery in the year 1524, seems to have been lost, but
copies of the same, it may have been with alterations, were sent to Verrazano's
relatives and friends in Italy. Ramusio, in the year 1556, and Hakluyt,
in the year 1582, published one of these copies, and it has since been
frequently printed.
In addition to the above, there exists a manuscript copy, sometimes re-
ferred to as the Florentine or Magliabechian codex, a fragmentary copy in
the Academy of Cimento, and a manuscript copy recently discovered, which
from the name of its present owner may be called the Cellere codex. Hall
has printed the original document and has given an excellent translation of
the same.
54.
Tiraboschi. Storia. Tom. VII, pt. i, p. 205.
SS- Fiorini, op. cit., p. 117.
56. Navarrete, M. F. de. Noticia biografia de Alonso de Santa Cruz.
Madrid, 1835. Reprinted in his Opuscules. Tom. II; Nicolao, A. Biblioteca
Hispana. Romae, 1672. Tom. I, p. 37; Harrisse. Discovery, p. 736; also in
his Jean et Sebastian Cabot, p. 173; Espada, J. de la. Relaciones geograficas
de Indias, publicalas el Ministerio de Fomento Peru. Madrid, 1885. Tom.
II, p. xxi ; pp. xxx-xxxvi.
In the second reference is a reprint of an inventory, made at the time of
the death of Santa Cruz, of his collection of maps, pictures, and manuscripts
and especially referred to in the receipt given by Juan Lopez, his successor
as Royal Cosmographer, mention being made of no less than eighty-seven
items.
57. He seems to have produced nothing of special importance in his
capacity as "Historicus subjects
Regius," giving, however, some
of heraldry, and genealogy. The question of the
attention to the
determination of
longitude interested him, and there is still preserved, in the Royal Library
of Madrid, his manuscript bearing the title "Libro de las longitudes y
manera que hasta ago se ha tenido en el arte de navegar con sus demonstraciones
y examplos." At the time of his death there was also left a paper in
manuscript, treating of the subject of longitude, which probably contains
a summary of suggestions made to the Junta in Sevilla in the year 1536
"sobre la orden que se ha tenido en el dar de la longitud."
58. Wieser, F. R. v. Die Karten von Amerika in den Islario
Alonso de Santa Cruz Cosmografo Mayor des Kaisers Karl
General des
V, mit der
spanischen original Texte und einer Kritischen Einleitung. Innsbruck, 1908.
This work was reviewed by Stevenson, E. L. (In: American Historical Review.
1910. pp. 392-394-)
59. Catalogue General des Manuscrits des Bibliotheques Publiques de
France. Department Tom. XXXII. Paris, 1897- P- 399; Harrisse. Discovery.
p. 621.
60. Schuller, R. R. Arcerca del "Yslario General" de Alonso de Santa
Cruz. London, 1913. (In: Proceedings of the XVIII Session of the Inter-
national Congress of Americanists. London, 1913. Vol. II, pp. 415-432.) ;
Islario general de todas las islas del mundo dirigido a la S. C. R. M. del
rey don Phelipe miestro Senor por Al° de Santa Cruz su cosmographo
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