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Montaigne read Lopez de Gomara for his information and was horrified by what Europeans did in South America and Mexico.
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The priest, Francisco Lopez de Gomara, was the first to raise the issue of location, naming Panama, Nicaragua, Darien, and Tehuantepec as the best choices, in a book published in 1552.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The priest, Francisco Lopez de Gomara, was the first to raise the issue of location, naming Panama, Nicaragua, Darien, and Tehuantepec as the best choices, in a book published in 1552.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The biographer of Cortes, Lopez de Gomara, who reports on the speeches and correspondence of the expedition's leader in great detail, found no reference to Spanish women.
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Gomara, the most learned Venetian Iohn Baptista Ramusius, and the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But we must be allowed to ask Mr. Wilson why he has not rather preferred to take Gomara as his guide.
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He has picked out of Bernal Diaz, who wrote in an avowed spirit of hostility to Gomara, a pettish remark, that the exaggerations of the latter are so great, that, when he says eighty thousand, we may read one thousand.
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But, at least, he does not deny that Gomara had an actual existence, that he was a veritable somebody, -- a reality, and not a
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This piece of rhetoric Mr. Wilson receives literally, and makes it a rule of measurement, applying it with more or less exactness, -- not, however, to the statements of Gomara, with whose work he is acquainted only at second hand, but to those of Cortés and of
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Gomara; and he even censures Mr. Prescott for having pursued a different course.
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