1611, Italian, Unpublished edition: Memoriale presentato alla Maesta del Cattholico Re Don Filippo dal Capitan Pietro Fernandez de Chiroa sopra la populatione di nuovo scoperta nella quarta australe del mondo, [manuscript]. Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de, d. 1615.

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  • 1 item (6 leaves)
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  • [ca. 1611]
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  • Italian

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Title
  • Memoriale presentato alla Maesta del Cattholico Re Don Filippo dal Capitan Pietro Fernandez de Chiroa sopra la populatione di nuovo scoperta nella quarta australe del mondo, circa 1611 [manuscript].
Creator
  • Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de, d. 1615.
Published
  • [ca. 1611]
Physical Description
  • 1 item (6 leaves)
Part Of
  • In collection: Notizie istoriche appartenente al Regno di Spagna, di Portogallo, e di Sicilia
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Time Period
  • 1611
Summary
  • In this Memorial addressed to King Philip III of Spain Quirós gives an account of the lands that he discovered and named "Australia del Espirito Santo" (leaf 177). He cites the goodness and greatness of the lands and supplicates the King hoping to establish a Spanish colony that could compare with the provinces of New Spain and Peru.
Biography
  • Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, also known as Pedro Fernández de Quirós, (1563-1615), was a Portuguese navigator who, after 1580, became subject to the Spanish crown when the two countries were dynastically joined. Quirós figured in Spanish maritime exploration of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and he is said to have been motivated by an interest in discovery for its own sake. In December 1605, with the backing of Philip III for an expedition under his own command, Quirós sailed from Callao, Peru, with the intention of finding the great southern continent thought to exist in the South Pacific Ocean. In May 1606, after finding part of the Tuamotu Archipelago, the northern Cook Islands and Tikopia, the expedition reached the New Hebrides. Believing he had discovered the "terra australis incognita" that he was seeking for the Spanish crown Quirós named the largest island in the group Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. He established a short-lived settlement at St. Philip and St. James Bay before sailing to Acapulco in Mexico, where he arrived in November 1606. The second ship, with the pilot Luis Vaez de Torres, went on to sail through the Torres Strait, but almost certainly failed to sight Australia.
  • Following his return to Madrid in October 1607, Quirós wrote a series of Memorials to Philip III reporting on his discoveries and petitioning for support in further exploration. The eighth Memorial, in which Quirós recounted his “discovery” of the Austral lands and its wonders, was of particular interest. Thought to have been presented in December 1608 or January 1609, it became a foundation text for the belief that in the South Pacific there lay a vast Austral continent.
Notes
  • Manuscript reference no.: MS 10109.
  • Manuscript version, circa 1611 from Milan (?), Italy, of Quirós' eighth Memorial translated into Italian. The folio is bound as leaves 173-177 in a collective volume of manuscripts of a political, diplomatic or historical nature relating to Spain and its domains, in particular in Italy, bearing the title Notizie istoriche appartenente al Regno di Spagna, di Portogallo, e di Sicilia.
  • Folio of six leaves, measuring approximately 34.3 x 22.5 cm. Four leaves of text with final leaf blank. Written in a cursive hand in ink, with 26 lines of text per leaf. Title from manuscript title-leaf.
  • Watermarked on title-leaf: Three hills surmounted by a lily in a double circle.
  • Condition: Pages show some marginal spotting.
  • Text begins (on leaf 174): "Io il Capitan Pietro Fernandez di Chiroa dice che con questo sono viii Memoriali, che sono presentati à V. Maestà sopra la populazione che si deve fare nella terra che V. Maestà commando che si scoprire nella parte australe incognita."
  • In Italian.
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  • Italian
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