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190 from Italy to the Canary Islands
“Le Canarien”, manuscript. The British Museum.
In 1912, Tripoli was conquered by the Italian landing fleet, which ended
the Italo-Turkish War; as we see, a renewed interest in Italian colonial con-
quests had also brought on a renewed interest for heroic Italian navigators.
Thus, finally, Amedeo Pescio devoted an entire chapter to Lanzarotto,
following the one on the Vivaldi brothers and before the one on Nicoloso
da Recco, but it is a disappointment to see that chapter is made of only six
little pages, written moreover in very large typeface, which facilitates the
reading but reduces the number of words. Moreover, the six pages (cor-
responding to three of the previous texts) are reduced to a compilation of
earlier sources with only two new elements:
