Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America: Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse
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Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America: Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse
Central America -- Bibliography; Mayas -- Antiquities; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Bibliography
(Also the edition of 1536.)--A French translation of the 4th Decade,
by Simon de Colines, Paris, 1532.--A German version, by Hôniger of
Kônigshofen.--Hackluyt's reprint of 1587. "De orbe novo Petri Martyris
Anglerii, &c., &c.," and finally the complete English translation by
Michael Lok and Richard Eden: "De novo Orbe, or the Historie of the
West Indies, &c., &c.," London, 1612. I need not dwell on the great
importance of Martyr's book, for Yucatan.
HERNAN CORTÉS. (His first letter is lost: in place of it the letter of
the "Municipality of Vera Cruz," dated 10th July, 1519, contains a
short statement about Yucatan. This letter is printed in Vol. I. of
"Coleccion de Documentos inéditos para la historia de España," and in
Vol. I. of "Historiadores primitivos de Indias," by Enrique de Vedia,
Madrid, 1852.--Folsom's translation of 1843. "Despatches of Hernan
Cortés, the conqueror of Mexico, &c." substitutes an Introduction by
the translator himself.--The earliest mention of this report is found
in Robertson: "History of America," Vol. III., p. 289, Edition of
1800, and an abstract is found in Prescott: "Conquest of Mexico,"
Appendix II., 3d Vol.) "Fifth letter to the Emperor Charles VII.,"
noticed by Robertson and Prescott; contained, in full, in
"Historiadores primitivos de Indias," Vol. I., by Vedia. A full
English translation, by Pascual de Gayangos, was published in 1868, by
the "Hackluyt Society," vol. 40.
JUAN CRISTÓBAL CALVET DE ESTRELLA. "De Rebus Gestis Ferdinandii
Cortèsii," written between 1548 and 1560, and printed with a Spanish
translation: "Vida de Cortés," by Sr. Icazbalceta in Vol. I. of "Col.
de Documentos para la Hist. de México."--Short and meagre.
ANDRÉS DE TAPIA. "Relacion hecha por el Señor Andrés de Tapia, sobre
la conquista de México." (Icazbalceta's "Coleccion de Documentos, &c."
Vol. II. México, 1866.)
BENEDETTO BORDONE. "Libro di Benedetto Bordone.--Nel qual si ragione
tutte l'Isole del mondo con li loro nomi antichi e moderni,"
1528.--Later editions also.
GIROLAMO BENZONI. "Historia del Mondo Nuovo," Venice,
1565.--Translated into German by Nicolaus Hoeniger: "Die Neue Welt und
Indianischen Kônigreichs, neue und wahrhaffte geschichte, &c., &c.,"
Basel, 1579.--Incorporated in Théodore De Bry "Grosse Reisen," Parts
4, 5, and 6.--Of other prints I but mention the latest English
translation, published by the Hackluyt Society in 1857 (Vol. 21,)
under the title of "History of the New World, by Girolamo Benzoni,"
edited as well as translated by Rear-Admiral W. H. Smyth. There are
Italian versions of 1572, French of 1587, and Latin of 1600.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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