212 Wisconsiti Academy of Sciemes, Arts, and Letters. 



Another edition in Latin, was entitled, '' concerning the 

 Antarctic region formerly discovered by the King of Port u.ajal." 

 {De ora antarctica per regein Poriugallm pridem inventa.) The 

 earliest Italian edition was styled, " All the navigations of the 

 King of Spain." [Libretto de iutta le Navigazione del Re di 

 jSpagna Lsole trovate novamente per el He di Spagna, 1495.) That 

 monarch voyaged as easily as Solomon built the temple with- 

 out lifting a finger, and no one has profited more by the law- 

 maxim : quod fojcit jper alium facit per se. 



Perhaps it was his wile who, accustomed to do all drudgery 

 by proxy, when urged by her confessor to do penance, said : 

 " yes, I will. I will make my maids of honor fast all 

 through Lent ! " 



In many editions the motto was : 



" Cum Deus astra regat et terrae climata Caesar, 

 Nee tellus nee iis sidera majus habent." 



As God in heaven, so kings on earth bear sway; 

 Above, below, no greater names than they. 



The voyages of Araericus were published separately many 

 times, but, so far as can be ascertained, never together till the 

 year 1507, and then in Lorraine at Saint-Die. A professor in 

 the gymnasium there, born in the neighboring Freiburg, was 

 then publishing a Latin cosmography. While thus engiiged, 

 he fell in with the letters of Americus in French, translated 

 them into Latin, dedicated them to Rene the local potentate, 

 and added them to his other geographical chapters. His work 

 was entitled, " Gosmograp)lii<x, introductio. * * * Insuper, 

 quatuor Americi Yespucii navigationes." 



On the title-page he mentioned this addition as " things un- 

 known to Ptolemy and discovered by moderns." The pro- 

 fessor's name was WaldzeemfiUer. After the fashion of his 

 time he latinograecised it as Hylacomylus. In a note treating 

 of the progress of discovery in the old continents, he adds : 

 " but now another fourth part has been found by Americus, as 



