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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Amerigo Vespucci
		The mother of Amerigo's father was Nanna, daughter of Mestro Michele, of the Onesti of Pescia, and sister of Mestro Michele, the father of Nicolè and of Francesco, who resided in the magistrato supremo of the Priors in the Republic of Florence.
		Vespucci received his first instruction from his uncle Giorgio Antonio, a Platonic philosopher who was a teacher of the greater part of the Florentine nobility.
		But as regards Vespucci, there are, at Florence, the apocryphal synchronous copies of all the accounts of his voyages, except the text that was used for the publication of the "Mundus novus", of which accounts, as will be seen further on, a correct edition is lacking.
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	Amerigo Vespucci - MSN Encarta
		Amerigo Vespucci (Latin Americus Vespucius) (1454-1512), Italian navigator, for whom the continents of North and South America are named.
		Most scholars agree that Vespucci explored a large section of the northern coast of South America during an expedition led by Spanish soldier Alonso de Ojeda in 1499 and 1500.
		German geographer and cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who translated Vespucci's narrative in 1507, was the first to use America, an adaptation of the explorer's given name of Amerigo, as a name for the southern continent.
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	Amerigo Vespucci
		The mother of Amerigo's father was Nanna, daughter of Mestro Michele, of the Onesti of Pescia, and sister of Mestro Michele, the father of Nicolè and of Francesco, who resided in the magistrato supremo of the Priors in the Republic of Florence.
		Vespucci received his first instruction from his uncle Giorgio Antonio, a Platonic philosopher who was a teacher of the greater part of the Florentine nobility.
		With Amerigo Vespucci, however, was the son of his brother Antonio, Giovanni, who was born on 6 March, 1486, and who was named piloto mayor in 1512, upon the death of his predecessor and uncle, Amerigo.
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	Amerigo Vespucci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant and cartographer who voyaged to and wrote about the Americas.
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, as the third child of a respected family.
		Amerigo Vespucci died in Seville, in Spain, in 1512.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci (699 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci (ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Amerigo Vespucci in the harbor of New York, 1976.
		The Amerigo Vespucci in the harbor of Oslo, 2005.
		The Amerigo Vespucci often participates in sailing parades and Tall Ships' Races, where she is in amicable rivalry with the Gorch Fock.
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		Amerigo Vespucci was the third child born to his Italian parents in Florence in 1452.
		Amerigo Vespucci (born in Florence in 1452), whose name was given to the American continents by Waldsmuller in 1507, worked in Seville (where he died) in the business house which fitted out Columbus' second expedition.
		When Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454, in the wealthy city of Florence seemed the very center of the world to the people.
	www.lycos.com /info/amerigo-vespucci.html (419 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci - LoveToKnow 1911
		As a student Amerigo is said to have shown a preference for natural philosophy, astronomy and geography, He was placed as a clerk in the great commercial house of the Medici, then the ruling family in Florence.
		Vespucci, for 80 leagues to the province of Parias (or Lariab), and then 870 leagues more, always to the north-west, to the "finest harbour in the world," which from this description should be in British Columbia or thereabouts.
		On the 24th of April 1505, Vespucci received Spanish letters of naturalization; and on the 6th of August 1508 was appointed piloto mayor or chief pilot of Spain, an office which he held till his death, at Seville, on the 22nd of February 1512.
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		Amerigo Vespucci: Tutte le informazioni su Amerigo Vespucci su Encyclopedia.it
		Amerigo Vespucci (9 marzo, 1454 - 22 febbraio, 1512), mercante genovese, navigatore e profondo conoscitore dei mari, durante i suoi viaggi esplorò gran parte delle coste orientali del Sud America.
		Amerigo prosegue verso sud e tocca la foce del Rio delle Amazzoni, raggiungendo il 6°S, Trinidad e il fiume Orinoco prima di fare ritorno in Spagna.
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	Amerigo_Vespucci
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in March of 1451, and grew up in a considerable mansion near the river.
		Amerigo was the third son, there were two older brothers, Antonio and Girolamo, the youngest was Bernardo.
		In 1497 Vespucci said that he went on a voyage to the "New World." Little is known about this because there was not much evidence to support that he actually made this voyage such as: journals, maps they used, or any crew members journals about what happened.
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	Amerigo Vespucci - Geographie Lernsoftware
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	No. 43: Amerigo Vespucci
		Vespucci finally outfitted his own voyage in quest of the passage to the Indian subcontinent that had eluded Columbus.
		Vespucci made two voyages between 1499 and 1502 and possibly a third one in 1503.
		Columbus found the new world, but Vespucci was the man who recognized that it was a new world.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi43.htm (476 words)

	Ship Models in Mauritius » AMERIGO VESPUCCI ShipModels (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"AMERIGO VESPUCCI", a ship of the Italian navy was launched in 1931 in the Naval shipyard of Castellamare Di Stabia in Italy, this pieces of art, realized by the Lieutenant Colonel Francesco Rotundi, keeps in balance the technical practice of the most modern war ships and the fascination of the old sailing ships.
		A ship which still exists a name which represents to the admiring spectators a chapter of a long story dedicated to the courage to the sprite of adventure and to the sacrifice of those young men who sail on the her and who have chosen the sea life.
		Un vaisseau qui existe toujour, un nom qui presentera a chaque fois aux spectateurs tourne un chapitre de l'histoire maritime dedie au courage, a l'esprit d'aventure et au sacrifice de tout ces jeunes qui en partant avec lui ont choisi les routes de la mer.
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		Vespucci was to teach all pilots of Spain in skills of navigation, cosmography, and he was to direct the construction of hydrographic charts, inspect navigational instruments and to investigate any navigation problems [Pohl 184].
		Vespucci was the first European to reach the shores of Brazil, and the first to explore its coastline; he was the first on the coasts of Columbia, Uruguay, and Argentina [Pohl 196].
		Amerigo would never have written the "Four Voyages" to Soderini considering that Amerigo's nephew, Giovanni, took part in a plot to kill Soderini, and the Vespucci family was not fond of Soderini [Pohl 152].
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	Vespucci, Amerigo - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		VESPUCCI, AMERIGO [Vespucci, Amerigo], 1454-1512, Italian navigator in whose honor America was named, b.
		Vespucci found the mouth of the Río de la Plata and probably went as far as lat.
		Vespucci's achievements were long belittled by scholars, but the conclusions of Alberto Magnaghi in the 1920s and 30s are now widely accepted, and the pilot major is given his due.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-vespucci.html (447 words)

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		Amerigo Vespucci was the third child born to his Italian parents in Florence in 1452.
		Amerigo Vespucci (born in Florence in 1452), whose name was given to the American continents by Waldsmuller in 1507, worked in Seville (where he died) in the business house which fitted out Columbus' second expedition.
		When Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454, in the wealthy city of Florence seemed the very center of the world to the people.
	lycoszone.lycos.com /info/amerigo-vespucci.html (419 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		His father, Nastagio (Anastasio) Vespucci, was a notary, and his uncle, Fra Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, to whom he owed his education, was a scholarly Dominican and a friend of Girolamo Savonarola.
		Vespucci claims to have sailed with one of these "freelance" expeditions from Cadiz on the 10th of May 1497.
		On the 24th of April 1505, Vespucci received Spanish letters of naturalization; and on the 6th of August 1508 was appointed piloto mayor or chief pilot of Spain, an office which he held until his death at Seville on the 22nd of February 1512.
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	amerigo
		Vespucci was born in 1454 to a prominent family in Florence, Italy.
		Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454, the first year of the new age of printed material.
		Amerigo Vespucci was a scientific scholar awaiting to be awakened.
	www.italiansinnashville.net /amerigo.html (3230 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci's Account of His First Voyage. 1909-14. American Historical Documents, 1000-1904. The Harvard Classics
		[Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence in 1452 and died in Seville in 1512.
		The present translation is made from Vespucci’s Italian (published at Florence in 1505–6) by “M. K.”, for Quaritch’s edition, London, 1885.
		It is to be remarked that Vespucci always uses the word wind to signify the course in which it blows, not the quarter from which it rises.
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	Amerigo Vespucci Biography (Explorer) — Infoplease.com
		Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine merchant and navigator who made at least two transatlantic trips to the New World, voyages that inspired cartographer Martin Wardseemüller to label the new continent "America" in 1507.
		Vespucci was employed by the Florentine Medici family as a representative for their operations in Seville, Spain.
		Vespucci is said to have made a guess at the world's circumference that was accurate within 50 miles.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/amerigovespucci.html (427 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci (XL)
		The Amerigo Vespucci was built in 1930 in the style of the 19th century type of large frigates.
		The AMERIGO VESPUCCI belongs to the "Academie Navale" in Livorno.
		The AMERIGO VESPUCCI was modernised in 1951 and 1958 and had her last major overhaul in 1964.
	www.promondo.at /xamerigo.html (403 words)

	biographie vespucci
		Vespucci was the son of Nastagio, a notary.
		The question is fundamental for the evaluation of Vespucci's work and has given rise to fierce controversy; attempts to reconcile the two series of documents cannot generally be considered successful.
		Vespucci thought he had sailed along the coast of the extreme easterly peninsula of Asia, where Ptolemy, the geographer, believed the market of Cattigara to be; so he looked for the tip of this peninsula, calling it Cape Cattigara.
	www.bigoid.de /conquista/biographien/vespucci.htm (1011 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci and his Voyages
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence on the ninth of March in the year 1451.
		Amerigo Vespucci began his education under the guidance of his uncle Giorgio Antonio who was a Platonic philosopher and a teacher of the Florentine nobility.
		Although Amerigo Vespucci died in Spain in 1512, he will long be remembered as the explorer after whom two major continents of the world have been named despite the controversy surrounding the naming.
	www.florencevillas.com /florence-tuscany-guide/peoples/amerigo-vespucci.html (1605 words)

	food help: what kind of food did amerigo vespucci eat? - Help.com
		Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 -February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer.
		Vespucci's voyages became widely known in Europe after two accounts attributed to him were published between 1502 and 1504.
		However, the rediscovery in the 18th century of other letters by Vespucci has led to the view that the early published accounts were fabrications, not by Vespucci, but by others.
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	Vespucci Family Papers (Library of Congress)
		Amerigo Vespucci is further represented in the collection by several items acquired by the Library in the early 1900s, including English translations of a letter to Laurentius Patri de Medici and Vespucci's account of his travels titled "The Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci." *** CONTAINER LIST Container Nos.
		Vespucci, Anastagio (1426-82), 1478 Vespucci, Antonio (1449-1534), 1476-1526 Vespucci, Bartolomeo (1479-1527), 1504, n.d.
		Vespucci, Bernardo (1422-), 1454-76 Vespucci, Bernardo (1455-1527), 1481-89 Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio (1434-1514), 1456-99, 1955, n.d.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/vespucci.html (559 words)

	The Straight Dope: Why was America named after Amerigo Vespucci?
		Amerigo by Vespucci's day was an established if not especially common name whose original meaning, it is safe to say, had long been forgotten.
		For centuries it was argued that Amerigo Vespucci was a fraud who had never traveled to the continent that bore his name and did not deserve to have either of his names applied to anything.
		Vespucci came to the world's attention chiefly through the publication in 1503 and 1504 of two brief letters he purportedly wrote to Lorenzo de Medici about a voyage undertaken for the king of Portugal.
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		Amerigo Vespucci was born into one of the most cultured and respected aristocratic families in all of Florence.
		Amerigo's statement in that letter that claimed that he had walked on the lands of a new world, caused a huge up-roar within the church.
		Amerigo "revolutionized geography, for his discovery of the new continent carried the unavoidable corollary that between the New World and Asia there was another ocean to cross" (Pohl, 139).
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/papers/foster-a.html (1557 words)

	Explorers: AMERIGO VESPUCCI
		Amerigo Vespucci, also known as Americo or Vespucio, was an Italian navigator born in Florence, Italy in 1451.
		Then in 1497, Vespucci set up his vessels with supplies and navigated his third voyage, already experienced since one year earlier, he had equipped a fleet that would be used by the Spanish government.
		However, a controversy began as to whether Vespucci was ahead of Columbus and Jabots of the discovery of America's mainland.
	www.latinartmall.com /blogs/explore/2006/02/amerigo-vespucci.html (394 words)

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