...Alan K. Manchester Amerigo and the New World: The Life and Times of Amerigo Vespucci . By Arciniegas Germán . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1955 . Pp. xvi , 323 , ix . $5.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 383 language capable of conveying fine...

... by adopting such terms as indios, Casa de la India, and las leyes de la India. The humanistic training which Amerigo had received in Florence enabled him to grasp the significance of the new discoveries, and it was to his fellow humanists of Florence that he wrote when the light dawned. The naming...

... to save that of another. Those who read Miss Armitage will come away with the feeling that she has led, with great perceptiveness, very near to the heart of the Lawrence riddle. james l. Godfrey Amerigo and the New World: The Life and Times of Amerigo Vespucci. By German Arciniegas. New York: Alfred...

... (New York, 1961); German Arciniegas, Amerigo and the New World: The Life and Times of Amerigo Vespucci (New York, 1955). See also Wilcomb Washburn s review of the Ar­ ciniegas work in the William and Mary Quarterly, XIII (Jan., 1956), 102-106. There is further comment by Washburn and Arciniegas...

..., the event—psychical and historical—an encounter: Amerigo Vespucci the voyager arrives from the seaBefore him is the Indian ‘‘America a nude woman reclining in her hammockAn inaugural scene: after a moment...

.... From its beginnings our literature echoes with praises inspired by its majesty and grandeur. Nep­ tune and his sons, Drake, Raleigh, Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Amerigo Vespuccio, Balboa, Vasco da Gama, De Soto, Leif Ericson, Magellan! Each a name to conjure with, resplendent with the never-fading glories...

... impossible in all his other fiction, is consummated. He had written nineteen novels and in many of them he had affirmed that no marriage was possible between the Old World and the New that America and Europe were irreconcilable. Now at last in his twentieth he brought the marriage off. Prince Amerigo...

... to tobacco, though not by that name, was Waldseemuller s Cosmogra-phiae (1507), which contains an account of the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci; but the earliest which specif­ ically mentions the tobacco plant was written by a Spanish official chronicler, Oviedo, and published in 1535. This contains a descrip­...

... the proceeds. William with his usual acumen was pointing to a number of the novel s characteristics. There is a decidedly high-toned social atmo­ sphere, created by the marriage between Maggie Verver, the daughter of the enormously wealthy American tycoon Adam Verver, and the Roman aristocrat Prince Amerigo...

.... Michel de Certeau made this principle fundamental to his understanding of history as of culture. Consider his preface to The Writing of History, which begins this way: ‘‘Amerigo Vespucci the Discoverer arrives from...

... historiographic écriture by way of an ironic com- mentary on a engraving in which Amerigo Vespucci is depicted as the discoverer who ar- rives from the sea and finds...

..., whose openings also delay the presen­ tation of the main character. The novel begins with three vignettes about Italian American men with problems the undertaker Amerigo Bonasera, the singer Johnny Fontane, and the baker Nazorine. Although the three come from different social strata, each has a problem...

... after Martellus s map), Johannes Ruysch (born in Antwerp, but of German parentage) published in Rome his Universalior cogniti orbis tabula ex recentibus confecta observation The map shown in Figure 11 was published only four years after Amerigo Vespucci s Mundus Novus, in which he launched the idea...