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Trust, Globalisation and Citizenship in Renaissance Europe: The Case of the South German Merchants of Lisbon Around 1500

“…It was in print, however, that Burgkmair's work was to have the most famous posterity. Van Doesborch, the Antwerp printer, subtly associated Springer's account with Americo Vespucci by introducing it without further reference with an excerpt from a letter attributed to the latter 53 . The letter allegedly addressed to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici had been widely disseminated in Latin under the title Mundus novus in Northern Europe from 1503 via Paris, with no less than five editions published in Augsburg.…”