{"id":27900,"date":"2015-08-31T08:50:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T07:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=27900"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:38:15","slug":"benzoni-girolamo-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/benzoni-girolamo-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzoni, Girolamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Girolamo<\/strong><strong> Benzoni <\/strong><strong>(c.1519-1570)<\/strong> was an Italian historian who is best known for his 1565 book, <em>La<\/em> <em>Storia del mondo nuova<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>1116<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> (<em>The History of the New World).<\/em> <em>The Catholic Encyclopedia <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27901\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Girolamo_Benzoni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27901\" class=\"wp-image-27901\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Girolamo_Benzoni.jpg\" alt=\"L0020190 Portrait of Girolamo Benzoni Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk https:\/\/wellcomeimages.org Portrait of Girolamo Benzoni Woodcut 1572 La Historia del Mondo Nuovo Benzoni, Girolamo Published: 1572 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" width=\"230\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Girolamo_Benzoni.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Girolamo_Benzoni-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Girolamo_Benzoni-767x1024.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Wellcome Library, London.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>comments that &#8220;<em>It contains interesting details about the countries he visited, but abounds in errors and often in intentional misstatements. What Benzoni states about the Antilles is a clumsy rehash of <a href=\"#CasasBartolome\">Las Casas<\/a>. His reports on the conquests of Mexico, and Peru bristle with errors.&#8221; <\/em>In it he also supported the then prevailing view that linked Atlantis with America.<\/p>\n<p>In 1857 the Hakluyt Society<sup>(b)<\/sup> published a well-regarded English translation of Benzoni&#8217;s book, which is available online<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historynewworld00smytgoog\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historynewworld00smytgoog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hakluyt.com\/\">https:\/\/www.hakluyt.com\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girolamo Benzoni (c.1519-1570) was an Italian historian who is best known for his 1565 book, La Storia del mondo nuova[1116] (The History of the New World). The Catholic Encyclopedia comments that &#8220;It contains interesting details about the countries he visited, but abounds in errors and often in intentional misstatements. What Benzoni states about the Antilles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1586,4095,4093,4094],"class_list":["post-27900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bartolome-de-las-casas","tag-catholic-encyclopedia","tag-girolamo-benzoni","tag-hakluyt-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65690,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27900\/revisions\/65690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}