Letters from a new world : Amerigo Vespucci's discovery of America /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
Uniform title:	Mundus novus. English
Imprint:	New York : Marsilio, c1992.
Description:	xli, 214 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps, facsims. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Marsilio classics
Subject:	Vespucci, Amerigo, -- 1451-1512 Vespucci, Amerigo, -- 1451-1512. Discovery and exploration, Spanish. America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish America -- Early accounts to 1600 America. Early works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1590163

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Other title:	Amerigo Vespucci's discovery of America.
Other uniform titles:	Columbus, Christopher Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566. Historia de las Indias. Formisano, Luciano
ISBN:	0941419622 (HC) : $24.00 0941419630 (PB)
Notes:	Appendix includes other texts including a letter of Christopher Columbus and excerpts from Las Casas's History of the Indies. Includes bibliography (p.197-203) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Garry Wills
Introduction / Luciano Formisano
Chronology
Letters of Amerigo Vespucci. Letter I to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de'Medici. Letter II to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de'Medici. Letter III to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de'Medici. Letter IV Ridolfi Fragment. Letter V Mundus Novus. Letter VI Letter to Soderini. App. A Letter of Columbus to his son concerning Vespucci
App. B Letter of naturalization of Vespucci
App. C Letter of appointment of Vespucci as "Pilot Major"
App. D Excerpts from Waldseemuller's Cosmographiae Introductio
App. E Excerpts from Las Casas's History of the Indies
App. F Excerpts from Navarrete's Coleccion de los viajes.

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