Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8): French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700
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Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8): French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700
America -- Discovery and exploration; America -- History; United States -- History
There is no mention of Verrazano by name in this map, but there is
ample evidence of a connection between Maggiolo’s map and that of
Hieronimo da Verrazano; very probably, M. Desimoni thinks, through
the intervention or medium of some chart or charts yet unknown. The
Maggiolo map has a reference to Florence, Verrazano’s birthplace, in
the names of “Valle unbrosa” (Vallambrosa), “Careggi,” etc.; references
to France and Francis in such names as “Anguileme,” “Longavilla,”
“Normanvilla,” “Diepa,” “San Germano,” and others, particularly
“Luisa,” applied to an island. The map is connected with Verrazano’s,
not only by this name, but by a great number which the two have in
common. It is true that these names are not always applied to the
same positions on the two maps: “Luisa” is a squarish island on the
Maggiolo map, and a triangular one on the other, and in the letter. The
latitudes of Maggiolo’s map are different. Florida is placed as far
south as the tropic. There is naturally some diversity in the general
direction of the coast, and in the distances from place to place. But
the substantial points are equivalent, if not identical. We have the
NOVA GALLIA in its equivalent, FRANCESCA; the same allusions in the
names to Tuscany, France, Dieppe; and an identity in the names of three
very important places,—“Luisa,” the port of refuge, and the attempt to
show Cape Cod.
M. Desimoni examines again the map of Gastoldo, first published in
the Ptolemy of 1548, inserted later in Ramusio’s third volume, and
the globe known as the globe of Ulpius, already mentioned here. Both
contain names that appear on the Verrazano map; but an examination
shows that both contain names not on that map, and each contains at
least one name not on the other. All these names are found on the
map of Maggiolo; and M. Desimoni concludes his paper with a table in
four parallel columns, in which a careful comparison is given of the
nomenclature of four maps,—the Maggiolo of 1527, the Verrazano of
1529, the Ulpius globe of 1542, and the Gastoldo of 1548.[97]
The earliest mention of the voyage of Gomez is found in Oviedo’s
_Sumario_, which was published at Toledo in 1526.[98] It is there
stated (folio xiv, _verso_) that Gomez returned in November from a
voyage begun the year before (1524, which we now know is an error);
that he had found in the north “a greate parte of lande continuate from
that which is caued Baccaleos, discoursynge towarde the West to the xl.
and xli. degree [et puesta en quarenta grados y xli, et assi algo mas y
algo menos], frō whense he brought certeyn Indians,” etc.[99]
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