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c) SPANISH LANGUAGE SOURCES

The Spanish language sources can be divided into two main strands:
those who believe that the discovery of Lanzarote occurred in 1336 and
those who believe that it occurred in 1312.
In his Viajes y descubrimientos en la edad media published by Editorial
Sintesis, Eduardo Aznar Vallejo mentions specifically on p. 53 the date
1336 (without adding any new information), and Mariano Cuesta Domin-
go’s Il grande libro delle esplorazioni [The great book of explorations],
translated into Italian in 1992 and published by Mondadori, reports the
date 1336 and adds that Lanzarotto would have been at the service of Por-
tugal (again without adding any new information).
Among the works that follow the theory of 1312 are the data rich text
La Gran Aventura de Canarias by the Cabildo Insular de Lanzarote that
merely mentions said date of 1312 (p. 122), again cited in Augustin de la
Hoz en Lancelot, Obra periodistica (1981-88) on page 43, following the
theory that Lanzarotto would have left in search of the Vivaldi brothers.
Briefly, we can add that the following sources also agree with the 1312
thesis: Joaquin Blanco (Breve noticia histórica de las Islas Canarias, III
Planisphere by Diogo Ribeiro, manuscript (1529). Vatican Museums.