Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America.

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 1994| | Copyright

Amerigo Vespucci. Ed. Luciano Formisano. Trans. David Jacobson. New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1992. 6 pls. + xli + 214 pp. $24.

Drawn from various sources, the texts conveniently assembled here allow the reader to examine evidence concerning the early exploration and naming of the Western hemisphere. The introductory matter consists of a short foreword by Garry Wills and a longer essay on Vespucci by Luciano Formisano. The heart of the book offers a dozen sixteenth-century texts: the six letters attributed to Vespucci (translated from Formisano's 1985 critical ...

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