CHAPTER II.

BIOGRAPHERS AND PORTRAITISTS 30

ILLUSTRATIONS: Page of the Giustiniani Psalter, 31; Notes of Ferdinand Columbus on his Books, 42; Las Casas, 48; Roselly de Lorgues, 53; St. Christopher, a Vignette on La Cosa's Map (1500), 62; Earliest Engraved Likeness of Columbus in Jovius, 63; the Florence Columbus, 65; the Yañez Columbus, 66; a Reproduction of the Capriolo Cut of Columbus, 67; De Bry's Engraving of Columbus, 68; the Bust on the Tomb at Havana, 69.

THE ANCESTRY AND HOME OF COLUMBUS 71

THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE EARLY LIFE OF COLUMBUS 79

ILLUSTRATIONS: Drawing ascribed to Columbus, 80; Benincasa's Map (1476), 81; Ship of the Fifteenth Century, 82.