Note 505 — Chapter II
Reading edition
This was a cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent; he was born in 1463, and died in 1503. Cf. Ranke’s letter in Humboldt’s Examen critique, and translated in Lester’s Life and Voyages of Vespucius, p. 401. Varnhagen has an “Étude bibliographique” on this 1503 letter in his Amerigo Vespucci, son caractère, etc., p. 9.