Spain in America, 1450-1580

ISBN: 9781333565312 出版年：2016 页码：390 Edward Gaylord Bourne Forgotten Books

Chapter vii., on Amerigo Vespucci, reveals a truth which has been much obscured, that the name Amer ica, derived from the Florentine voyager, spread slowly, was long applied only to South America, and for nearly two centuries was not habitually used by Spanish geographers. The Vespucci controversy is also made intelligible, and the solution of the writer seems inevitable.