Note 217 — Chapter IX · THE MIGHTY PROJECT IS CONCEIVED. May, 1519.
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‘Condotta artifiziosa, e doppia,’ etc., says Clavigero, Storia Mess., iii. 28, while Solis lauds it as ‘Grande artífice de medir lo que disponia, con lo que rezelaba: y prudente Capitan.’ Hist. Mex., i. 186.