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In my post, I meant to say that San Antoni was the name of the ship of
those who betrayed Magellan and who darted away from the eastern opening of
the Strait and dashed back to Spain with most of the provisions for the
expedition to reach the Moluccas.
Juan Vespucci amazingly named the Strait in honor of those who
betrayed Magellan by using "Estraito de sant antoni" on his 1526 map (See
Nebenzahl 80-83 and Shirley 58). Earlier in his 1524 map he used the phrase
"Cavodesto Antoni" (See Nebenzahl 77-79).
In both cases, Vespucci chose this nomenclature even after the
Victoria had returned to Spain confirming that a circumnavigation had been
achieved. Vespucci and Sebastian Cabot were associated the Board of Trade
(Casa
de Contratacion) in Seville and were never willing to name the strait for
Magellan.
Diogo Riberio -- who became a part of a Portuguese clique which
dominated the newly established Board of Spices (Casa de Espericias) in
Seville
under the leadership of Cristobal de Haro -- was the first to make maps
(manuscript maps) giving the honor to Magellan even though Magellan always
disclaimed being he first discover of the strait as was well known to all the
insiders which included (Juan Vespucci and Cabot).
But Ribeiro won out and influenced the emergence and proliferation
of published maps starting in the 1533-1535 period that began to give the
honor to Magellan as opposed to using other names (Strait of San Antoni or
The Strait of All Saints).
Nonetheless, in the 1520s inside the Spanish bureaucracy there was
this rivalry between the two Boards or Casa about what was the most
appropriate name. And for Vespucci to use San Antoni reflected a deep
hostility to
Magellan who was Portuguese and his legacy inside the Board of Trade. All
this is discussed in my book, The Magellan Myth.
De Haro, the old Fugger agent and Portuguese native who became the
head of the Board of Spices and for whom Riberio worked in Seville was the
same fellow who financed Magellan's expedition in 1519 entirely out of his
own pocket which surely made Emperor Charles V happy. Also De Haro when in
Portugal financed early Portuguese expeditions down the east coast of South
America after 1500. In fact, his name appears in the reference to a
circumnavigation via a strait in the Newen Zeytung document (a Fugger
newsletter) from which Schoener cribbed in 1515.
So there was this split or rivalry inside the Spanish bureaucracy in
the 1520s between Cabot/Vesupcci in the Board of Trade and the de
Haro/Ribeiro Portuguese-origin clique which dominated the Board of Spices over
Magellan's legacy -- a dispute which was covered or obscured up in the long
run
by the proliferation of printed maps in Magellan's favor after the
mid-1530s.
Ribeiro or his influence after his death (circa 1533) prevailed in
seems in part because Cabot (the pilot mayor since about 1515) left for
England where he continued to use "the Strait of All Saints" in his 1545 world
map and in part because Juan Vespucci suddenly disappears from the scene
after 1526.
I have read somewhere that he was suspected of espionage by the
Spanish. I have not been able to confirm this claim. He was the son of
Amerigo
Vespucci who was pilot major in the Board of Trade from 1508 to his death
in 1512.
Peter_______________________________________________
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