While Columbus was absent on this voyage, as already mentioned, Bergomas had recorded the Admiral’s first discoveries.[218] =G.= LIVES AND NOTICES OF COLUMBUS.—Ferdinand Columbus—if we accept as his the Italian publication of 1571—tells us that the fatiguing career of his father, and his infirmities, prevented the Admiral from writing his own life. For ten years after his death there were various references to the new discoveries, but not a single attempt to commemorate, by even a brief sketch, the life of the discoverer. Such were the mentions in the _Commentariorum urbanorum libri_ of Maffei,[219] published in 1506, and again in 1511; in Walter Ludd’s _Speculi orbis_, etc.;[220] in F. Petrarca’s _Chronica_;[221] and in the _Oratio_[222] of Marco Dandolo (Naples),—all in 1507. In the same year the narrative in the _Paesi novamente retrovati_ (1507) established an account which was repeated in later editions, and was followed in the _Novus orbis_ of 1532. The next year (1508) we find a reference in the _Oratio_[223] of Fernando Tellez at Rome; in the _Supplementi de le chroniche vulgare, novamente dal frate Jacobo Phillipo al anno 1503 vulgarizz. per Francesco C. Fiorentino_ (Venice);[224] in Johannes Stamler’s _Dyalogus_;[225] in the Ptolemy published at Rome with Ruysch’s map; and in the _Collectanea_[226] of Baptista Fulgosus, published at Milan. In 1509 there is reference to the discoveries in the _Opera nova_ of the General of the Carmelites, Battista Mantuanus.[227] Somewhere, from 1510 to 1519, the _New Interlude_[228] presented Vespucius to the English public, rather than Columbus, as the discoverer of America, as had already been done by Waldseemüller at St. Dié. [Illustration: THE GIUSTINIANI PSALTER. Fac-simile of a portion of the page of Giustiniani Psalter, which shows the beginning of the marginal note on Columbus.] In 1511 Peter Martyr, in his first Decade, and Sylvanus, in his annotations of Ptolemy, drew attention to the New World; as did also Johannes Sobrarius in his _Panegyricum carmen de gestis heroicis divi Ferdinandi_ _Catholici_.[229] The Stobnicza (Cracow) Appendix to Ptolemy presented a new map of the Indies in 1512; and the _Chronicon_ of Eusebius, of the same date, recorded the appearance of some of the wild men of the West in Rouen, brought over by a Dieppe vessel. Some copies, at least, of Antonio de Lebrija’s edition of _Prudentii opera_, printed at Lucca, 1512, afford another instance of an early mention of the New World.[230] Again, in 1513, a new edition of Ptolemy gave the world what is thought to have been a map by Columbus himself; and in the same year there was a _Supplementum supplementi_ of Jacobo Philippo, of Bergomas.[231] In 1514 the _De natura locorum_ (Vienna), of Albertus Magnus, points again to Vespucius instead of Columbus;[232] but Cataneo, in a poem on Genoa,[233] does not forget her son, Columbus.