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At all events have confidence in me, for, so far as God permits, I will yet according to my power make something that not many men can equal. Now many good nights to you. Given at Nuernberg on Augustine's day, 1507. ALBRECHT DUeRER. NUeRNBERG, March 19, 1508. Dear Herr Jacob Heller.
The immense popularity of this poem we gather from many evidences from none more clearly than from this. He ascribes its general reception to its introduction into a popular work on geography, published in 1507. This error the French in another shape repeat with their 'dinde' originally 'poulet d'Inde, or Indian fowl.
Grave doubt has been thrown upon the first of these expeditions, the sole authority for which is Vespucci himself. The name America was given to two continents in honor of this naval astronomer on the authority of an account of his travels published in 1507, in which he is represented as having reached the mainland in 1497.
The letter is transcribed in Vischer, p. 359. Vasari, iii. 683. Vasari, iii. 692. Vasari, iii. 693. Mancini, "Notizie," 94. Arch. Gen. di Contratti di Firenze. Rogiti di Ser Baldelli. Filza dal 1507 al 1524.
Readiness was not his strong point; as a preacher he never could overcome his nervousness. He asked leave to retire to his cell, and there in solitude wrung out some verses of compliment; which found such favour that, to his regret, he was often called upon again. In 1507, when only thirty, he was made Prior, and thus became responsible for much of the management of the abbey.
There are memoranda existing concerning it, dated in 1506, 1507, and 1508, from which it appears that Amerigo Vespucci remained at Seville, attending to the fluctuating concerns of this squadron, until the destination of the vessels was changed, their equipments were sold, and the accounts settled. During this time he had a salary of 30,000 maravedis.
The earliest known edition of this letter was published in Latin, in 1507, at St. Diez in Lorraine. In preparing the present illustration, a reprint of this letter in Latin has been consulted, inserted in the Novus Orbis of Grinaeus, published at Bath in 1532. The letter contains a spirited narrative of four voyages which he asserts to have made to the New World.
Who first of Europeans looked upon this river at the gulf we do not know, but on a Ptolemy map, published in Venice in 1513, it is thought by some that the delta is traced with distinctness, as less distinctly in Waldseemuller's map of 1507.
He stands for a moment transfixed, and then plunges into the opening, forgetful of his original purpose in the vivid reality before him. He walks down the lane trodden century after century by countless pilgrims and enters the Cathedral precincts through the weather-worn gateway, Prior Goldstone II. built between 1507 and 1517.
Cardinal Remolini died in May, 1507, and Julius II confiscated in his house twelve chests and eighty-four bales which contained tapestries, rich stuffs, and other property belonging to Cæsar. The Pope ordered the Florentines to return certain other property of Cæsar's consisting of gold, silver, and similar valuables which he had sent to their city.
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