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198 from Italy to the Canary Islands

How Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer arrived at the “Rubicon” in the island of
Lanzarote. Plate found in “Le Canarien”.

other knight, Gadifer de La Salle, and they together - considering the
island “res nullius” - had made it their feud, restoring the old Lanzarotto
castle in 1402.
g) In a footnote, Caddeo quotes Millares (Historia General de las Islas
Canarias, Las Palmas, 1893, Vol. I, p. 62) to mention the fact that three
Majorcan ships under the command of Alvaro Guerra landed on the
island in 1345, finding Europeans there, whom they identified as travel
mates of Lanzarotto.
Caddeo concludes this collection of new data by listing some funda-
mental topographic maps: Angelino Dulcert’s cartography of 1339, where
the writing “insula de Lanzarotus Marocellus” appears (whereas Dalor-
to’s maps of 1325 do not yet mention the Canary Islands); the Pizigani