[Sca-cooks] Description of New World Foods 1591
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Tue Feb 15 13:34:29 PST 2011
Translation may not be necessary. The Victorians may have done it and published it.
History of the New World
Girolamo Benzoni; W H Smyth
1857
English
Responsibility: by Girolamo Benzoni, of Milan. Shewing his travels in America from A.D. 1541 to 1546 ; with some particulars of the island of Canary, now first tr. and ed. by Rear-Admiral W.H. Smyth.
Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ;; no. XXI; Variation: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ;; no. XXI.; Library of American civilization ;; 12279.
Also reprinted in 1970
Translation of La historia del mondo nuovo./ Reprint of the 1857 ed.
AND the Hakluyt edition is up on Google books
http://tinyurl.com/4l2e6w9
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The first edition was Italian!
La historia del Mondo Nuovo
Author(s): Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519.
Publication: In Venetia : Appresso Francesco Rampazetto,
Edition: [1st ed.]
Year: 1565
Description: 175 double leaves : ill. ; 16 cm.
Language: Italian
You can read about the author in the Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02484c.htm
The subject headings for these early accounts are:
America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Latin America -- History -- To 1600.
Johnnae
On Feb 15, 2011, at 2:35 PM, wheezul at canby.com wrote:
> I came across this 547 page description of the New World today:
>
> Benzoni, Girolamo / Scherdiger, Abel: Novae novi orbis historiae, snipped Helmstadt, 1591
>
> snipped
> I kind of think the foodie part would be fun to translate.
>
> Katherine
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