AMERIGO VESPUCCI ***
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AMERIGO VESPUCCI
BY
FREDERICK A. OBER
HEROES OF AMERICAN HISTORY
_ILLUSTRATED_
[Illustration]
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON 1907
Copyright, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
_All rights reserved._
Published February, 1907.
[Illustration: AMERIGO VESPUCCI]
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. YOUNG AMERIGO AND HIS FAMILY 1
II. AMERIGO'S FRIENDS AND TEACHERS 15
III. VESPUCCI'S FAVORITE AUTHORS 32
IV. IN THE SERVICE OF SPAIN 45
V. CONVERSATIONS WITH COLUMBUS 59
VI. VESPUCCI'S DEBATABLE VOYAGE 76
VII. VESPUCCI'S "SECOND" VOYAGE 101
VIII. WITH OJEDA THE FIGHTER 126
IX. CANNIBALS, GIANTS, AND PEARLS 138
X. FAMOUS FELLOW-VOYAGERS 148
XI. ON THE COAST OF BRAZIL 165
XII. THE "FOURTH PART OF THE EARTH" 179
XIII. THE FOURTH GREAT VOYAGE 194
XIV. KING FERDINAND'S FRIEND 209
XV. PILOT-MAJOR OF SPAIN 221
XVI. HOW AMERICA WAS NAMED 237
ILLUSTRATIONS
AMERIGO VESPUCCI _Frontispiece_
A CONJECTURAL RESTORATION OF TOSCANELLI'S MAP _Facing p._ 20
MARCO POLO " 40
OJEDA'S FIRST VOYAGE " 130
ROUTES OF THE DISCOVERERS " 166
NORTH AMERICA FROM THE GLOBE OF JOHANN SCHÖNER " 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 Géographie de Nouveau Continent_, Paris, 1836-1839.
