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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci
