Bootleg Map - Florida before Ponce de Leon
 
AN UNKNOWN EXPLORER coasted the Florida peninsula more than a decade before Ponce de Leon -- as this Portuguese bootleg copy of a secret Spanish map demonstrates. It was obtained in 1502 by Alberto Cantino, agent for the Duke of Ferrara. The tip of Florida is designated "Last Day of April Cape." (Biblioteca Estense, Italy)
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