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          New World navigator Amerigo Vespucci was born into one of the leading mercantile, aristocratic families of Florence....

          Amerigo Vespucci

          (1451-1512)

          Who Was Amerigo Vespucci?

          On May 10, 1497, explorer Amerigo Vespucci embarked on his first voyage.

          A biography of the Italian-born merchant, explorer, and navigator who made several voyages to the New World and for whom America is named.

          On his third and most successful voyage, he discovered present-day Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata. Believing he had discovered a new continent, he called South America the New World. In 1507, America was named after him. He died of malaria in Seville, Spain, on February 22, 1512.

          Early Life

          Navigator and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the third son in a cultured family, was born on March 9, 1451, (some scholars say 1454) in Florence, Italy.

          Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, March 9, , just one hundred and fifty years after Dante was banished from the city in which both first saw the light.

        1. Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, March 9, , just one hundred and fifty years after Dante was banished from the city in which both first saw the light.
        2. This book offers a new reconstruction of Amerigo Vespucci's navigational and scientific endeavours in their historical context.
        3. New World navigator Amerigo Vespucci was born into one of the leading mercantile, aristocratic families of Florence.
        4. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who played a prominent role in exploring the New World.
        5. The American continents are named for an Italian navigator and explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, who was born March 9, Vespucci set sail in on the first of.

          6. Although born in Italy, Vespucci became a naturalized citizen of Spain in 1505.

          Vespucci and his parents, Ser Nastagio and Lisabetta Mini, were friends of the wealthy and tempestuous Medici family, who ruled Italy from the 1400s to 1737.

          Vespucci's father worked as a notary in Florence. While his older brothers headed off to the University of Pisa in Tuscany, Vespucci received his early education from his pater