...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...

... 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...

... discussed in the disputes. A more serious attempt is that by O Gorman and German Arciniegas to supplant Columbus by Vespucci as the discoverer of America, based pri­ marily on the semantics of the words discovery and invention. The vacuity of these semantic discussions has already been indi­ cated.21...

... for an objective study which reveals a surprisingly different and intelligible Amerigo Vespucci. Perhaps after four centuries Amerigo himself is at last being discovered. alan k. Manchester The Bourgeoisie in i8th Century France. By Elinor G. Barber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 165. $3.50...

..., 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...

... (Figure io). Certainly, Colum­ bus was not clear about where he was landing, and the idea that a new world could have been discovered began to be spread after Vespucci s third letter ( Mundus Novus, 1501). What is important to keep in mind, therefore, is that the discovery is not something...

... 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...

... 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...

... Vespucci, voyaging with Ojeda, gave his own name to the New World. At this out­ post, about one hundred years later, the Spanish Empire then ruling one half of civilized Europe, and almost half of the Western Hemisphere, successfully withstood the first as­ sault of the British. Here, in turn, the British...

... between the world of his dreams and the real world polarized into an Edenic image and an Anti-image. Perhaps the central and most characteristic figure in forming the Neue-Weltanschauung of sixteenth-century Europeans was Peter Martyr of Anghiera, who translated the reports of Columbus, Vespucci...

.... 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...

.... In the sixteenth century, the idea of the New World introduced by the Italian intellectual Pietro Martir d’Anghiera, who was living in Spain at the time of the Columbus and Vespucci voyages, meant that a world unknown to Euro- peans became visible. The distinction in the sixteenth century was between the New...