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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.
Simonetta Vespucci (née Cattaneo; c. 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella Simonetta ("the fair Simonetta"), was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci.
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
Agostino Vespucci was a Florentine chancellery official, clerk, and assistant to Niccolò Machiavelli, among others. [3] He is most well known for helping to confirm the subject of Leonardo da Vinci 's Mona Lisa as Lisa del Giocondo , [ 4 ] and is also the author of a number of surviving letters and manuscripts.
Americus is a unisex given name, a Latin version of the Italian name Amerigo that is ultimately derived from the medieval German name Amalric, meaning “home ruler.”.” Americus is etymologically related to the names Amaury, Emery, Emmerich, and Henry and the
Americus Vesputius was the Latinized version of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, the forename being an old Italianization (compare modern Italian Enrico) of Medieval Latin Emericus (see Saint Emeric of Hungary), from the Old High German name Emmerich, which may have been a merger of several Germanic names – Amalric, Ermanaric and ...
In the first decade of the 16th century, Catalina de Medrano married Pedro Barba, the nephew of Amerigo Vespucci. Barba’s mother, Catalina Cerezo, was the sister of María Cerezo, the widow of Vespucci and daughter of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba , who is regarded as one of the greatest generals in history. [ 10 ]
These villages are said to have reminded Amerigo Vespucci of the city of Venice, (Italian: Venezia), and so the area was given the name Venezuela [9] meaning Little Venice. (However, according to Martín Fernández de Enciso , who supported Ojeda's 1509 expedition, they found a local population calling themselves the Veneciuela , so "Venezuela ...