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Inasmuch as, most illustrious and excellent Lord, there are many curious persons who not only take pleasure in knowing and hearing the great and wonderful things that God has permitted me to see and suffer during my long and dangerous voyage, herein described, but who also wish to know the means and manners and paths that I have taken in making that voyage; and who do not lend full credence to the end unless they have a perfect assurance of the beginning: therefore, your most illustrious Lordship must know that, finding myself, in the year of the nativity of Our Saviour 1519 in Spain, in the court of the most serene King of the Romans, 2 with the reverend Monsignor, Francesco Chiericati, 3 then apostolic protonotary and ambassador of Pope Leo X of holy memory (and who has since ascended to the bishopric of Aprutino and the lordship of Teramo), 4 and having obtained much information from many books that I had read, as well as from various persons, who discussed the great and marvellous things of the Ocean Sea with his Lordship, I determined, with the good grace of His Caesarean Majesty, and of his Lordship abovesaid, to experience myself and to see those things that might satisfy me

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2007

Language

EN