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Lucretia was still sometimes designated as the Pope's niece. Gianandrea Boccaccio to Duke Ercole, Rome, February 25, 1493. Ms. Memoirs of Pesaro, by Pietro Marzetti and Ludovico Zacconi, in the Bibl. Oliveriana of Pesaro.
Preparations for another voyage rapidly made Foneseca appointed to superintend the expedition Indians brought home baptised Fleet sails from Bay of Cadiz on the 25th of September, 1493 Steers for the Canaries Ordered to rendezvous at Navidad Fine passage across the Atlantic On Sunday, 3rd of November, a lofty island seen, and therefore called Dominica The Antilles Lands near a Carib village Pineapples first seen Supposed cannibals Diego Marques and eight men missing Ojeda goes in search of them The missing party returns Land at Santa Cruz Caribs in a canoe fiercely attack the Spaniards Fleet comes off Porto Rico A neat village visited Fleet reaches Hispamola Invitations from a cacique to remain A supposed Indian convert escapes Two dead bodies of white men discovered Painful suspicions aroused Fleet arrives off La Navidad at night Canoe comes off, and Columbus hears of the destruction of the settlement Sails from La Navidad and founds the town of Isabella Expedition of Ojeda to the Golden Mountains Ships sent home Proposal to exchange Caribs for cattle A mutiny suppressed Diaz imprisoned Columbus makes an expedition into the interior Forts built Columbus proceeds on a voyage of discovery Surveys south coast of Cuba Friendly meeting with natives Enters the harbour of Jago de Cuba First sight of Jamaica, called by Columbus Santiago Hostility of the natives Attacked by the Spaniards Bloodhounds first used Canoes formed of enormous trees.
The first mistress of the Strozzi palace was Clarice Strozzi, née Clarice de' Medici, the daughter of Piero, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. She was born in 1493 and married Filippo Strozzi the younger in 1508, during the family's second period of exile. They then lived at Rome, but were allowed to return to Florence in 1510.
On the 25th November 1493, Columbus once more dropped his anchor in the harbour of Monte Christi, and a party was sent ashore to prospect for a site suitable for the new town which he intended to build, for he was not satisfied with the situation of La Navidad.
After touching at several of the Leeward Islands and Porto Rico, the fleet sighted the Samana peninsula on November 22, 1493, and three days later arrived at Monte Cristi.
In a volume of his Works which I have consulted he calls himself, "Peter Martyr, Angi Mediolanen, Consiliarii regii, Pronotarii apost." It is dedicated to Charles the 5th of Spain, and printed at Basil, by Bebelius 1533. He was born in 1445, and died in 1525. Columbus sailed on his first Voyage in the Autumn of of 1492, and returned about February or March, 1493.
The library, a fine room panelled with mahogany, contains many treasures, notably three Caxtons The History of Reynard the Fox, 1481; The Chronicles of England, 1482; and The Golden Legend, 1493: the first and second folios of Shakespeare: and many examples one printed on vellum of Froissart's Chronicles. There is also a fifteenth-century manuscript of Gower's Confessio Amantis.
Unfortunately he did not forbid them to capture negroes in Africa for the same purpose, and the change merely meant that negroes took the place of Indians as slaves. The story of the change is in great part the story of the life of Bartholomew de Las Casas. LAS CASAS. The father of Las Casas was a companion of Columbus on his second voyage in 1493.
On his second voyage Columbus found no difficulty in collecting seventeen ships and 1,500 adventurers, so popular had the new way to the Indies become when the way was once found. He set sail six months after his return to Spain, or on September 15, 1493.
Besides, he was busy looking for a motto for the house of Austria, an occupation of the highest importance for a man of the character of Frederic III. This motto, which Charles V was destined almost to render true, was at last discovered, to the great joy of the old emperor, who, judging that he had nothing more to do on earth after he had given this last proof of sagacity, died on the 19th of August, 1493; leaving the empire to his son Maximilian.
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