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Amerigo Vespucci (/ v ɛ ˈ s p uː tʃ i / vesp-OO-chee, [1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom "America" is named.
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The most notable among them were Christopher Columbus, who is credited with discovering the New World; [93] John Cabot, the first European to set foot in "New Found Land" and explore parts of the North American continent in 1497; [94] Amerigo Vespucci, who first demonstrated in about 1501 that the New World was not Asia as initially conjectured ...
Vespucci's letter was a publishing sensation in Europe that was immediately and repeatedly reprinted in several other countries. [17] Peter Martyr, who had been writing and circulating private letters commenting on Columbus's discoveries since 1493, often shares credit with Vespucci for designating the Americas as a new world. [18]
Giovanni Vespucci (1484 – after 1524), also known as Juan Vespucio or Vespucci, was an Italo-Spanish geographer, cartographer, and cosmographer. He was born in Florence around 1484. With his uncle Amerigo , he moved to Seville in Castile , Spain , where he was employed as a cartographer and cosmographer. [ 1 ]
Simonetta Vespucci died just one year after the joust, on the night of 26–27 April 1476. She was twenty-two at the time of her death. She was carried through the city in an open coffin for all to admire, and there may have existed a posthumous cult about her in Florence. [11] Her husband remarried soon afterward.
Agostino Vespucci of Florence; Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, assistant of Christopher Columbus and after whom the American continent was named. Simonetta Vespucci, Italian Renaissance noblewoman from Genoa
In 1508 a special position was created for Vespucci, the 'pilot major' (chief of navigation), to train new pilots for ocean voyages. Vespucci, who made at least two voyages to the New World, worked at the Casa de Contratación until his death in 1512. The population of Seville in the 16th century was around three per cent Black people. [79]