Note 118 — Chapter XI

This controversy has never rested from the time of Angelo Maria Bandini, who published in 1755 the Vita e Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci gentiluomo fiorentino, down to our own days, which have witnessed a new defence of the Florentine’s claims by the Brazilian, F. A. de Varnhagen. It will be sufficient here to refer the reader to the facts published by Oscar Peschel in the Zeitalter der Entdeckungen, p. 305 seq., and in an essay on Amerigo in the periodical Das Ausland (No. 32, 1858). Vespucci’s well-known work on his second journey (Bandini, p. 64) is addressed to Lorenzo de’ Medici, the son of Pier Francesco.