they themselves submit new propositions; consequently they are returning to Portugal without reaching any decision.  The letter closes by saying that the Emperor is about to write about the whole affair to his representative, “Juan de Zuniga, knight of the order of Santiago, residing there [at Lisbon] in our behalf;” and King Joao is earnestly requested to rest assured of the love and affection of the Spanish monarch.

[178] This was an ancient office in the royal house of Castile.

[179] Bartulo was an Italian jurisconsult, born (1313) at Sasso-Ferrato, in Umbria; he died at Perusa in 1356.  He was entrusted with several important political commissions and wrote upon various points of civil law; some of his works were used as text books in the most famous universities.  He has been styled “the first and most thorough of the interpreters of law.”

Baldo is evidently one of the two brothers Pietro and Angelo Baldo de Ubaldis, both eminent Italian jurisconsults.  The former was born at Perusa, in 1324, and died at Pavia, April 28, 1406.  He was a man of vast erudition, and held many important posts—­his influence extending so far that Charles VI of France implored his aid at the Roman court for convening a general council.  He was the author of a number of commentaries and other works.  Angelo was born in 1328, and died in 1407; he was (at the same time with his brother) professor of civil law at Perusa, and wrote several commentaries and monographs.

[180] Original in folio bound in parchment.  It has forty-three good sheets.—­Note by Munoz. (Cited by Navarrete).

[181] The matter in brackets in these proceedings is evidently notes made by Munoz, although they may have been made by the Castilian secretary.

[182] The number acting for Portugal was not greater than for Spain, as Gomara points out and whom Herrera copies, but the same on either side, only while Portugal had two attorneys, Spain had one attorney and one advocate.—­Navarrete.

[183] This date should be June 7, 1494.  The Spanish letter of authorization was dated June 5.

[184] Original in handwriting of Don Hernando Colon. (Navarrete, tomo iv, no. xxvii, pp. 343-355.

[185] Of these navigators, Aloysius (Luigi) da Ca da Mosto made a voyage to Cape Verde and Senegal, in 1454-55; Antonio de Noly, to the Cape Verde Islands, in 1462; Pedro de Cintra (Italianized as Piero d’Sinzia), to Senegal, in 1462; Diego Cano, to the Congo River and inland, in 1484; Bartolome Diaz discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1486; and Vasco da Gama made several voyages to India, the first in 1497.

[186] This is a Latin translation of Paesi nouamente retronati (Vicenza, 1507)—­the earliest known collection of voyages.  It is supposed to have been compiled by Alessandro Zorzi, a Venetian cosmographer (according to Bartlett); but Fracanzio di Montalboddo, according to Quaritch (Catalogue No. 362, 1885).  Facsimiles of the titles of both books are given in Bartlett’s Bibliotheca Americana, part i, p. 40.