The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci : Reprinted in Facsimile and Translated from the Rare Original Edition (Florence, 1505-6) (Classic Reprint)

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All now lost. The one usually considered to be an account of his third voyage (but which also contains a short summary of various observations made in his first three voyages), written probably about the end of 1502, was saved from the complete destruction which has been the fate of the others, by being translated into Latin by Jocundus interpres ut latini omnes intelligant. This translator was the celebrated Fra Giovanni del Giocondo, of Verona, then resident in Paris. The original was presumably in bastard-italian, like the Lettera to Soderini, but it cannot have been ever printed, since the Italian or Venetian form of it, which appeared (for the first time) in the Paesz' of 1507, is merely a retranslation from the Latin. The Latin translation and the Italian retranslation were printed several times between 1503 or 1504 and 1521; and were substantially reproduced in the compilations of Grynaus and Ramusio.

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