Excerpt from The Daklunt Society: History of the New World
Girolamo benzoni was born at Milan about the year 1519, and, as we learn from himself, started out upon adventure in the New World at the age of twenty'two. After fourteen years of toil and travail in those parts, he returned home and in 1565 pub lished his historia del mondo nuovo at Venice, dedicating it to Pope Pius IV. This was a quarto volume but the book was reprinted seven years afterwards in a small octavo form, and this is the ...