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{en} Geoffrey Symcox. Italian reports on America, 1493-1522: Accounts by contemporary observers . Turnhout: Brepols, 2002.

< English ed. of the 1996 Italian ed. >

Abstract

"An adaptation, with English translations, of La scoperta nelle relazioni sincrone degli Italiani (1996). Intended as a companion to vol. 10 of Repertorium Columbianum: Italian reports on America, 1493-1522 : letters, dispatches, and Papal bulls. Cf. editor's note./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index."

English; Italian and Latin texts with English translation and introduction.

Geoffrey Symcox, editor ; Luciano Formisano, textual editor ; Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., translator, Italian texts ; John C. McLucas, translator, Latin texts.

Contents

Historical Introduction / Geoffrey Symcox -- The Texts and Their Authors -- The Changing Map of the World -- The Indigenous Peoples -- Conquest and Colonization -- The Figure of Columbus -- Introduction to the Text / Luciano Formisano -- Italian Reports on America: Translation -- Allegretto Allegretti, Sienese Diaries from 1450 to 1496 -- Domenico Malipiero, Venetian Annals from 1457 to 1500 -- Battista Fregoso, Memorable Sayings and Deeds -- Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo, The Four Enormous Islands Recently Discovered in India beyond the Known World, 1493 -- Simone dal Verde, Letter to Piero Niccoli -- Nicolo Scillacio, The Islands Recently Discovered in the Southern and Indian Seas -- Michele da Cuneo Letter to Gerolamo Annari, 15 October 1495 -- News of the islands of the Hesperian Ocean Discovered by Don Christopher Columbus of Genoa -- Giovanni de' Strozzi, Faith, Superstitions, and Customs of the Island of Hispaniola -- Marcantonio Coccio (Sabellico), Book One ... of the Account of Happenings in the Unknown Regions -- Antonio Gallo, Columbus's Voyages -- Bartolomeo Senarega, Commentary on Genoese Matters from 1488 to 1514 -- Agostino Giustiniani -- Psalter -- Annals -- Simone dal Verde, Letter to Mateo Cini, 2 January 1499 -- Angelo Trevisan, Libretto -- Alessandro Zorzi, Various Information about the Voyages -- Anonymous Milanese -- Alessandro Geraldini, Itinerary to the Regions below the Equator -- Alessandro Geraldini, Letters -- Juan Diaz, Itinerary of the Catholic King's Fleet to the Island of Yucatan in 1518.