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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom the Americas are named.
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culture · Italian explorer and navigator (1454–1512) · explorer · merchant · cartographer · writer · seafarer · sailor · also Amerigo Vespucci, Americo Vespucio, Amerigo-Vespucci, Vespucci
Born 9 March 1454 · Died 22 February 1512 · Q47674
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On a former occasion I wrote to you at some length concerning my return from those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet, at the cost, and by the command of this Most Serene King of Portugal. And these we may rightly call a new world. Because our ancestors had no knowledge of them, and it will be a matter wholly new to all those who hear about them.
“On a former occasion I wrote to you at some length concerning my return from those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet, at the cost, and by the command of this Most Serene King of Portugal. And these we may rightly call a new world. Because our ancestors had no knowledge of them, and it will be a matter wholly new to all those who hear about them.”
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Lead Stories rated the claim “We got the name 'America' from Al-Maurikanus, not Amerigo Vespucci” Not A Fact.
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Alberto Magnaghi published the results of his exhaustive review of Vespucci's writings and relevant cartography
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When Ralph Waldo Emerson called Vespucci a "thief" and "pickle dealer" from Seville who managed to get "half the world baptized with his dishonest name"
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Alexander von Humboldt after careful consideration asserted the 1497 voyage was impossible but accepted the two Portuguese-sponsored voyages
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Died 1512-02-22.
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Born 1454-03-09.
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