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The 1524 woodcut influenced later illustrations
of the Aztec city, including that by Benedetto
Bordone in his Libro, Nel qual si ragiana de tutte
I'lsole del mondo (Venice, 1528) and that in Gio-
vanni Battista Ramusio's Delia Navigationi et
viaggi of 1565. Best known, probably, is Franz
Hogenberg's map of Mexico in the famous Civi-
tates Orbis Terrarum of 1572.
The map of the Gulf of Mexico next to the plan
of Tenochtitlan in Cortes' work uses the place
name La Florida, which the Spanish gave to what
is now the southeastern United States, and shows,
for the first time ever on a map, the Mississippi
River (here called Rio del Spiritusancto).
J.M.M.
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