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him to various noted persons. These letters were writ- 

 ten immediately after the events they describe. They 

 bear the first news. They reflect first impressions. . . . 

 This work was put into its present narrative form some 

 time prior to the summer of 1501." 



There now enters upon the scene another Italian letter 

 writer, one Angelo Trivigiano, who was secretary to 

 Domenico Pisani, the Venetian ambassador at the Span- 

 ish court. Thacher publishes copies of tliifc hitcrs 

 which Trivigiano wrote in 1501 to the W'lR'liaii aihuiral 

 and historian Domenico Malipiero (whose retainer he 

 seems to have been) transmitting copies of various sec- 

 tions of a "voluminous work" on the voyage of Colum- 

 bus "composed by an able man." Trivigiano nowhere 

 names Peter Martyr as the author, but in all three of the 

 letters he says that the author is the ambassador of the 

 Spanish court to the Sultan of Egypt, and contemporary 

 history informs us that this was no other than Peter 

 Martyr, who left Granada for Kgypt, August U, 1501. 



The contents of the Libretto, in Peter Martyr's own 

 words, baring an introductoi-y ])aragraph 1)y Tri\ igiano 



(l.-M-npInc ol 111.. ixTM.nai appca 

 turn. Ml ..vci- l.v Malipiero to . 

 Lisona, and by hiii, issu..! in ill 

 printed hook on Api ii 10. 15114.'- 



