A shorte and briefe narration of the two nauigations and discoueries to the northweast partes called Newe Fraunce
By: first translated out of French into Italian, by that famous learned man Gio: Bapt: Ramutius, and now turned into English by Iohn Florio; worthy the reading of all venturers, trauellers, and discouerers
Publisher: by H. Bynneman, dvvelling in Thames streate, neere vnto Baynardes Castell.
Published: 1580
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng; fre
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Indians of North America; History; Discovery and exploration; French
Other titles: Shorte and briefe narration of the two navigations and discoueries to the northweast partes called Newe Fraunce.
Work titles: Voyages
Notes: Translation into English, by John Florio, of the Italian translation by Giovanni Baptista Ramusio of the accounts of Jacques Cartier's first two voyages to Canada, published in volume 3 of his "Delle navigationi e viaggi", Venice, 1556. The first voyage itself apparently translated from an unpublished French manuscript; the second voyage is a translation of: Brief recit & succincte naration de la nauigation faicte es ysles de Canada, Hochelage & Saguenay & autres, Paris, 1545. Cartier's authorship of the original texts is doubtful and may have been written by Jehan Poullet, according to C.A. Julien in his Les Français en Amérique, Paris, 1946, p. 20-21.

Signatures: A-B² C-M⁴

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Purchase; 1853; 01668.