Transcriber’s note

• Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected.
• Original spelling was kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found.
• The following words have been changed:

  p. 57:	Sesa	→	Sessa
  pp. 283, 424:	Benevente	→	Benavente
  pp. 359, 360:	Copacobana	→	Copacabana

• Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book.