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Amerigo Vespucci

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Amerigo Vespucci 1454-1512 Italian Merchant and Geographer Amerigo Vespucci was one of the most important personalities of the European Age of Exploration. His vast knowledge of geography would set th... Read more

Amerigo Vespucci

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Amerigo Vespucci Born March 18, 1454, Florence, Italy Died February 22, 1512, Seville, Spain Amerigo Vespucci was the first to determine that South America was a separate, previously unknown contine... Read more

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Amerigo Vespucci

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A Florentine navigator and pilot major of Castile, Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), for whom America is named, is no longer accused of having conspired to supplant Columbus; but interpretation of documen... Read more

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Life of Amerigo Vespucci

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Off about Amerigo--whole continent named after him, but no statues anywhere...Two of his letters Mundus Novus were "the greatest literary successes of the 16th century." Translated and read all over E... Read more