Table of Authors and Sciences (catalogue), 319, 320–22, 330
unusual elements in design of, 3–4
Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena, Italy, 286
Bibliotheca universalis (Gesner), 328, 329
Bigarny, Felipe, 42
biography, 7
assertion of primacy in, 301–02
Hernando’s library with models for, 300–01
Hernando’s life of Columbus as first modern biography, 303
internal and external causes in, 303–04
resurrection as narrative device in, 307
task of biographer in, 299
Biondo, Flavio, 137, 139, 182, 183, 331
Boabdil, Muslim king, 17
Bobadilla, Francisco de, 57–58, 60, 64, 82, 84
Bobadilla, Spain, 185
Boccaccio, 300
Boethius, 122
Boina (Taino rain-god), 103
Bologna, Italy, 147, 284, 315
Book of Authors (catalogue), Biblioteca Hernandina, 325
Book of Epitomes (catalogue), Biblioteca Hernandina, 253–55, 256–57, 266, 269, 276, 288, 319–20, 325, 327
Book of Materials (catalogue), Biblioteca Hernandina, 268–69, 275, 276, 288, 319–20, 325
Book of Prophecies, The (Columbus), 60, 64–76, 98–99, 294
Colón de Concordia and, 129
Columbus’s desire to take manuscript of on Fourth Voyage, 76, 78
conquest of Jerusalem and, 70
Fourth Voyage incidents foretold in, 84, 94, 95, 99, 242–43
Hernando’s entries in, 65, 74–75, 120, 242
Hernando’s later image of Columbus and, 309
Hernando’s proposed authorship of parts of, 73–74
Hernando’s role in creation of, 59, 73–74
Hernando’s use of, on Hispaniola, 120
interpretation of Bible and, 64–65, 67–68, 70–72, 76, 84, 108–09
lunar eclipse (1504) described in, 108–09
missing sections of, 75
naming of, 59
order and arrangement of entries in, 65
principles behind, 65–69
prophecies in the Bible and, 70–71
surviving leaves of, 64
Book of Sciences (catalogue), Biblioteca Hernandina, 325
Book of the Royal Chamber of Prince Juan (Oviedo), 35
books
alphabets in early printed books, 227–28
faults and differences in early editions, 253
flood of books from printing presses, 254, 256, 315–16, 322
fonts in, 42
Hernando’s indexes to, 164–66, 168, 169, 176, 268
humanist attitudes to, 209
list of authors for, 209–10
unscrupulous printers and publishers of, 255
booksellers
emporia (cartolai) and, 146–47, 151, 196, 314–15
Hernando’s instructions to agents buying from, 314–15
Hernando’s preference for small booksellers, 151
London book trade and, 231–32
obrecillas (small, cheap works) from, 151
Paris as publishing center in, 133, 137, 282, 314
Venice book trade and, 137, 222–23, 236, 314
Worms to Venice route in, 216–17
Bordone, Benedetto, 91, 202
Borges, Jorge Luis, 256
Bosch, Hieronymus, 204, 206
botanical gardens, 2, 3, 262, 265
botany, 148, 257, 264–66, 323, 328
Bracciolini, Poggio, 181
Bramante, Donato, 142, 144, 153, 154
Brant, Sebastian, 207
Breydenbach, Bernard von, 227
Brunschwig, Hieroymus, 266
Brussels, 201, 204, 206, 207, 224, 227, 230
Bruto (Infante’s dog), 36, 38, 54
Budé, Guillaume, 211, 212
Burgos, Spain, 33, 42, 53, 54, 55, 128, 137, 243, 293
Burgundy, Philip the Fair, Duke of, 53, 124–25, 177
Byzantium, 191, 222, 314
cabbala, 133
Cabot, Sebastian, 188, 244, 269–70
Cadiz, Spain, 13–14, 14, 31, 52, 58, 77, 108, 315
Cadomosto, Luis, 250
Calepino, Ambrosius, 239
calligraphy, 35, 133
Cambrai, Peace of (1529), 292
Cañamares, Juan de, 22
Canary Islands, 46–47, 56, 79
Cancionero de la Colombina (songbook), 118–20
Caonabó (cacique), 45–46, 48
Cape Verde islands, 24, 249–50
Capella, Martianus, 123
Capitana (Columbus’s ship), 77, 83, 95, 97, 99, 100, 101–11, 124
Capitulaciones de Santa Fe (1492), 21, 55, 56, 112, 300, 310
Cariay (Central America), 92–93, 324
Carib islands, 81, 121
Carrara, Ubertino, 104
cartography see maps; navigation
Casa de Contratación, Seville, Spain, 188–89, 190, 244, 269, 270, 273, 328
Castile, 32–34
Charles I’s election as Emperor and, 177, 195
Comuneros revolt (1520–21) and, 214, 230–31, 233, 239
death of Isabella and, 124–25
Ferdinand retaking of control (1507) of, 125–26
Castro, Bartolomeo da, 148, 164
385385Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, The (Hernando Colón), 5, 239–40
Cateba, 93
Cathay, 23, 24, 25, 48, 63, 93, 309
Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England, 231, 252, 290–92, 304, 313
Catholicon (Balbi), 192
Cayman Islands, 101
Cerabora, 93
Cesena, Italy, 286
Champier, Symphorien, 307–08
Chanca, Dr, 43–44, 46
Charlemagne, 175, 194, 204, 212
Charles I, King of Spain (Holy Roman Emperor Charles V)
Badajoz conference and, 248–49, 272
Castilian revolt (1520–21) and, 214, 230–31, 233, 239
Columbus claims to New World possessions and, 177–78, 296–97
control of pope by, 231, 290–92
crowning as Holy Roman Emperor, 212–14, 276, 284
death of grandfather Maximilian and, 193–94
Description of Spain and, 187, 188, 238
election as Holy Roman Emperor, 194–95
Ferdinand’s death and crowning of, 177
grant of salary to Hernando by, 216
Hernando’s letter about library to, 314, 323
Hernando’s petition to, over holy orders, 284–85
League of Cognac against, 273–74
Luther as subject of, 216, 217
navigation and, 188, 270
pact between Henry VIII and, 202–04, 231, 252, 273
Portugal and, 189, 252
radical Protestantism and, 283
revolt in German Habsburg lands and, 252
Spanish subjects and, 186–87, 195, 214, 238
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. See Charles I, King of Spain
Chaves, Alonso de, 270–71, 272
Chièvres, Lord of, Guillaume du Croy, 177, 187
Chigi, Agostino, 142–44, 152, 178, 261, 274
Christianity
The Book of Prophecies and, 59, 60, 64–73
“clean blood” (limpia sangre) and, 35, 36
Columbus’s discoveries and, 18, 30, 62–64, 69–73, 74, 98–99, 294, 309
conversion of native Americans to, 30, 50, 52, 59, 69, 70, 72, 129
crusades and, 16, 17
Dominican order on Hispaniola and, 136
Donation of Constantine document and, 208
End of Time and, 29, 59, 65, 69–70, 283
Erasmus’s scorn for Roman Curia and, 206–07
European ethnography and, 50–52
Jewish conversion to, 16, 35–36
medieval European libraries and, 316–17
New World and, 18, 29–30, 50, 52, 59, 60, 62, 63–64
ordering of t
he world and, 169–71
reconquest of Jerusalem as final triumph and, 62–64, 72, 144
relics in Rome and, 139–40
Reyes Católicos (Catholic Monarchs) and, 13–14, 16, 18
Sacra Romana Rota (tribunal in Rome) and, 144–46, 154
sale of indulgences and, 214, 215
Thomism and, 41
see also papacy; Vatican
Cibao province, Hispaniola, 48, 49–50, 71
Cicero, 122, 123, 237, 261
Cipangu (Japan), 24, 29, 309
circumnavigation
Columbus’s proposal for, 82, 128–29
field of knowledge expanded by, 221, 243
Hernando’s proposal for, 129, 130, 132, 136
Magellan’s use of, 235, 241, 244
Cittavecchia, Italy, 138, 182
classical world. See Greece, classical; Rome, classical
classification of knowledge see knowledge, ordering and organizing of
“clean blood” (limpia sangre) concept, 35, 36
Clement VII, Pope (Giulio de’ Medici), 162, 231, 236, 273, 274, 276, 284, 285, 290–92, 318
Clenardus, Nicholas, 281–82, 287, 288, 290, 292–94, 301–02, 311
clocks (instrumento fluente), 248, 329
cocaine (cocaína) leaf, 96, 264
cocoa beans, 88–90, 211
Collegium Trilingue, Louvain, 208, 281–82, 286, 287
Colocci, Angelo, 260, 275
Cologne, 137, 214, 224, 231
Colón, Diego (half-brother of Hernando)
Beatriz in Córdoba and, 28
at Cadiz (1493), 13
circumnavigation idea and, 128–29, 130
death of (1526), 258
father’s imploring protection for Hernando by, 112–13
formal list of charges against, 257–28
founding of Sevilla la Nueva, Jamaica, by, 137
as Governor of Hispaniola, 124, 126–27, 145, 175–76, 197–98, 236, 243, 257–58
hereditary claims to New World possessions and, 55–56, 112, 124, 125–26, 136–37, 175, 296–97, 310–11
Hernando’s inheritance and, 198, 258
illegitimate children of, 127–28, 137, 144–46, 154, 178, 324
Infante’s household and, 31, 32, 34
marriage to María de Toledo, 126, 128
mother of, 23, 27
naming of as legitimate son, 55
Queen Isabella’s household and, 55, 57
recall to Spain: in (1514), 176; in (1523), 236, 243
rights of non-European peoples and, 136
in Spain during Fourth Voyage, 75
taste for luxury of, 126–27
Colón, Hernando
as acting pilót mayor, 245, 269–73
altering of historical record and, 104, 113, 136, 305–07, 309–10, 338–39
biography of Columbus (Life and Deeds of the Admiral) by, 6, 26, 45–46, 81, 176, 232, 264, 298–307, 308–09, 337–39
birth of (1488), 28
book indexes by, 164–66, 168, 169, 176, 268
The Book of Prophecies and, 59, 64–67, 73–75, 120, 129, 242–43, 294, 309
book-collecting by, 120–24, 132–33, 146–47, 149, 151–52, 202, 209–11, 223, 224–25, 231–33, 285, 310
books lost on return from Venice, 236–37, 239–40
books taken to New World by, 120–24, 133
botanical interests of, 264–65, 266
cartography methods of, 181, 183–85, 270–71
Charles’s granting of salary to, 216
Charles’s halting of Description project (1523) and, 238–39
Charles’s trip in north (1520–22) and, 195, 202–08, 212–14, 231–33
circumnavigation proposal (1511) and, 129, 130, 132, 136
Colón de Concordia by, 129
Columbus’s Fourth Voyage with, 77, 78–91, 92–97, 100–12, 126, 127, 309
Columbus’s reputation and, 8, 22, 57–58, 75, 294–97, 298, 311
dated purchase notes used by, 7, 121, 133, 146, 211
death of (1539), 1–2, 325
as delegate at Badajoz conference, 243–52, 253
Description of Spain by, 6, 179–81, 183–88, 189, 191, 193, 216, 238, 239, 248, 264, 266, 269, 329
dialogue on Spanish mapmaking, 188–89, 270
early life of, 13–14, 16, 31, 32–47, 48, 50, 52, 53–54, 132
in England, 202–04, 231–32
Erasmus and, 206, 207, 208–09
examples of images collected by, 38, 118, 212, 290
final inventory by, 5–6, 323
finances of, 55–56, 113, 126, 137, 198, 216, 258, 276–77, 285, 310, 322–23
first visit to Genoa (1514) by, 176
in France, 292, 307–08, 310
funeral monument of, 324–25
gardens of, in Seville, 2, 3, 148, 262–64, 262, 323
hereditary claims to New World possessions and, 55–56, 112, 124, 125–26, 136–37, 175, 296–97, 300, 310–11
home and library of, in Seville, 1, 259–62, 260, 262, 273, 311, 323
ill health of, 93, 258, 276, 312
illegitimacy of, 8, 28
Infante’s household and, 31, 32–43
keeping of Infante’s great books by, 37–40, 323
legal status as heir, 198, 310
library of. See Biblioteca Hernandina
lifelong quest to organize the world and, 48, 59, 64, 86–90, 121, 164–69, 176–77, 301, 313–18, 323
millenarian theories and, 75
missing sections from the Book of Prophecies and, 75
mission to Portugal (1518) and, 189, 190–91, 250
mistreatment of mule-driver by, 2, 233, 324
mother of, 28
naming of as legitimate son, 55
narratives of European superiority and, 311
notes made in books by, 7, 120, 144–45, 146, 185, 190–91, 242
observation of wildlife in New World by, 84–87, 92–93, 94–95, 122
obsession with lists of, 2, 7–8, 117–20, 158, 164–69
pamphlets bought in Rome by, 195–66, 218
pension awarded (1536) to, 310, 323
personal papers of, 5–6
petition to Charles over holy orders, 284–85
physical appearance of, 37
Queen Isabella’s household and, 55, 57
reconstructing his life from his books, 7
rights of non-European peoples and, 136
in Rome (1512–16), 137, 138, 139, 140–49, 150–52, 154–56, 158–60, 164, 176, 178, 181
routes through Europe (1520–22) and (1529–31), xiii, xiv
stay in Santo Domingo (1509), 117–24, 126–27
stranding at Santa Gloria (1503–4), 101–11, 124
sudden return to Europe (1509) by, 124, 127–28
in Venice (1521), 216, 217–18, 220, 221, 223, 227, 231, 232, 236, 285
Vocabulario of, 6, 191–93, 233, 239, 242, 306
will of, 2–3, 5, 314, 323–25
Colón, Luis (Diego’s son), 310, 323, 326, 337
Colón de Concordia (Hernando Colón), 129
Colonia, Juan de, 33
Colonia, Simón de, 33
Columbus (Carrara), 104
Columbus, Bartholomew (brother of Christopher), 25, 31, 48, 52, 92, 103, 126, 128
Belén settlement and, 95–99, 100, 111
as captain of Bermuda on Fourth Voyage, 77, 83–84
founding of Santo Domingo by, 56
seeking of English backing for Columbus and, 24
Columbus, Christopher
The Book of Prophecies, 59, 60, 64–76, 78, 84, 94, 95, 98–99, 108–09, 120, 129, 242–43, 294, 309
Capitulaciones de Santa Fe (1492) and, 21, 55, 56, 112, 300, 310
chronological framework of Christian history and, 68–69
circumnavigation and, 82, 128–29
Columbus the Pirate linked to, 307, 338–39
death of (1506), 113
del Piombo’s portrait
of, 160
discoveries as part of God’s plan, 62–64, 69–73, 98–99, 294, 309
enemies at court and, 52–53, 66, 82–83
entail on estate of, 55–56
final bedridden years of, 111, 112–13
final return voyage (1504) of, 112
as first European seeing American continental landmass, 56
fits of blindness and delirium of, 57, 61, 97–99, 134
Fourth Voyage manifest and, 77–78
geographical theories and, 23–24, 25–26, 61–62, 182
grave at Capilla de Santa Ana, Seville, 260, 312, 324–25
grave-goods of, 1–2, 59, 69
letter announcing discoveries (1493) of, 16, 17–18, 20, 43
letter from the Azores (1493), 20, 28
letters to court, 42–43, 48, 50, 62, 63, 98–99
logs kept by, 30–31, 309, 327
lunar eclipse (1504) and, 107–09
marriage to Doña Filipa, 23, 27, 79
mutiny at Santa Gloria (1504) and, 104–06, 109, 110–11
name change from Colombo, 23, 27
narrative of personal destiny and, 24–28, 98–99, 113, 303–04
narratives of European superiority and, 311
origins of, 20, 22–23, 35, 299, 305–07, 338–39
Peter Martyr’s account of exploits of, 50, 86, 134, 174
prophecy used by, 54, 106–09
Psalterium version of life of, 294–96
refusal of entry to Santo Domingo (1502), 81–83, 124
re-internment in Santa Domingo, 312–13
reputation of, 8, 22, 56, 57–58, 75, 101, 294–97, 298, 311
search for golden region, 93, 95–96, 100–01
search for passage to China and the East, 82, 91–92, 100–01
search for patronage (1487–92) by, 24, 26–27, 28
show trial in Santo Domingo and, 58
son’s biography of. See Life and Deeds of the Admiral
stranding at Santa Gloria (1503–4), 101–11, 124
theological theories of, 63–73, 129
title of Admiral of the Ocean Sea for, 13, 21
visions from God and, 62, 67, 98–99, 309
voyages of: First (1492–3), 14–16, 17–21, 28–31, 36, 43, 79, 80, 106, 306, 309, 327; Second (1493–6) of, 13–14, 31, 43–46, 47–50, 52–53, 54, 81; Third (1498–1500) of, 1–2, 56–58, 59–62, 81, 91; Fourth (1502–04) of, xi, xii, 6, 75–76, 77–112, 127, 309
will of, 113, 126, 137, 258, 312–13
works of ancient geographers consulted by, 25–26
Comuneros, Revolt (1520–21) of, 214, 230–31, 233, 239
Condivi (Michelangelo’s disciple), 155
Córdoba, Spain, 16, 28, 33, 136, 151, 238, 259, 287
Cornish, William, 231
Cortés, Hernán, 201, 202, 233–34
Costanza Rosa, 127–28
Cranach, Lucas, 197
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