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	Amerigo Vespucci - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Vespucci, Amerigo (Latin Americus Vespucius) (1454-1512), Italian navigator, for whom the continents of North and South America are named.
		Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer.
		Learn all about the explorer for whom America is named - Amerigo Vespucci, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
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	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)

	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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	Italian Cooking and Living - Amerigo Vespucci
		The Amerigo Vespucci, the sailing ship of La Marina Militare Italiana, the Italian navy, is famous for its years of travel and sailing expertise.
		The Amerigo Vespucci was built in 1931 in the naval shipyards of Castellammare di Stabia, situated on the Bay of Naples, and was designed to replicate the Renaissance vessel which the explorer used during his voyages.
		At the bow of the boat a golden statue of explorer Amerigo Vespucci is displayed standing proudly with his right hand over his heart and a rolled up map in his left as he looks out at the sea.
	italiancookingandliving.com /homepage_links/hp_Amerigo_adv.html (752 words)

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		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, as the third child of a respected family.
		Amerigo Vespucci worked for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici and his brother Giovanni and in 1492 they sent him to work at their agency in Seville, Spain.
		Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci delle isole nuovamente trovate in quattro suoi viaggi ("Letter of Amerigo Vespucci concerning the isles newly discovered on his four voyages"), known as Lettera al Soderini or just Lettera, was a letter in Italian addressed to Piero Soderini.
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	Amerigo Vespucci
		Amerigo Vespucci wrote a letter to his friend Lorenzo, who was the ruler of Florence.
		After he returned, Vespucci was going over his notes to determine where he had been, and to his surprise he found out that he had crossed the Line of Demarcation, made by Pope Alexander VI.
		Vespucci mapped the Portuguese territory and named harbors as he sailed down the coast of Brazil.
	www.esd.k12.ca.us /Matsumoto/TM30/history/Explorers/vesp.html (677 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci, Italian-born explorer for whom America was named (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vespucci was born in Florence and studied navigation as a youth.
		Vespucci's reputation came largely from a letter he wrote to Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici in 1502 or 1503.
		Vespucci also claimed to have led all the expeditions, but he actually had been only a navigator or commander of a single ship.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/vespucci.html (447 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci : Un nom pour l'Amérique
		Amerigo apprit beaucoup auprès de son oncle, Giorgio Antonio, lequel fréquentait la Maison des Medicis, haut lieu de la culture florentine.
		Pourtant, en en février 1505, le roi d'Espagne nomme Vicente Yañez Pinzon et Amerigo Vespucci, capitaines d'une prochaine expédition vers les Indes.
		Amerigo Vespucci est mort, mais son nom, ou plutôt son prénom, allait faire couler beaucoup d'encre.
	www.americas-fr.com /histoire/vespucci.html (1706 words)

	biographie vespucci
		Vespucci was the son of Nastagio, a notary.
		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.
		It is uncertain whether Vespucci took part in yet another expedition (1503-04) for the Portuguese government (it is said that he may have been with one under Gonzalo Coelho).
	www.bigoid.de /conquista/biographien/vespucci.htm (1011 words)

	Vespucci, Amerigo :: Explorers : Gourt
		Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 in Florence, Italy - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant and cartographer who voyaged to and wrote about the Americas.
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy, as the third child of a respected family.
		Amerigo Vespucci - Illustrated site created by students tells about the explorer for whom the Americas were named.
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	AMERIGO VESPUCCI: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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).
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	Amerigo Vespucci (explorer) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy as the third childof a respected family.
		Vespucci sailed southward, discovering themouth of the Amazon and reaching 6°S, before turning around and seeing Trinidad and the OrinocoRiver and returning to Spain by way of Hispaniola.
		Amerigo Vespucci died on February 22, 1512 in Seville, Spain.
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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
		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.
		The connection of the new world with Vespucci, thus expressed, is derived from the argument of this first letter, that it was right to call Amerigo's discovery a new world, because it had not been seen before by anyone.
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	Famous Italians - Galileo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To understand who Amerigo Vespucci was is to look at his life and times in the context of the time period.
		In 1503, on this journey, led by Amerigo Vespucci himself, the captain and crew explored the South American coast to within 400 miles of the southern tip, Tierra del Fuego He realized that what he was looking at was not India at all, but an entirely new continent.
		Amerigo had discovered a new continent in the only way it was possible by extensive exploration with well-founded deductions of the circumference of the earth.
	www.valparint.com /wendy/vespucci.htm (601 words)

	Jeff Butch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454, the first year of the new age of printed material.
		In 1492, Amerigo Vespucci was in Barcelona Spain.
		Amerigo Vespucci was considered a modern man from the Renaissance period of scientific inquiry that allowed men to independently question events of the times.
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	AMERIGO VESPUCCI (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amerigo Vespucci was named for the Florentine explorer for whom the sixteenth-century German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller named the newly discovered landmasses to the west.
		Amerigo Vespucci's full lines are in sharp contrast to the majority of sail-training vessels, which generally follow the finer model adapted from nineteenth-century merchant ship design.
		Amerigo Vespucci resumed her sail-training mission for the Italian navy well into the 1990s..
	www.taubmansonline.com /AEPAMERIGOVESP.htm (252 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Vespucci, in all probability, voyaged to America at the time ascribed, but he did not have command and as yet had had no practical experience of piloting.
		Vespucci, whatever his earlier beliefs had been, now realized that this could be no part of Asia, as flora, fauna, and human inhabitants in no way corresponded to what ancient writers, and such later ones as Marco Polo, had described.
		Amerigo was the first holder of the office, and it became his duty to train pilots, examine them for proficiency in their craft, and collect data regarding New World navigation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/amerigo-vespucci (1150 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)

	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 (435 words)

	Amerogo Vespucci (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Amerigo Vespucci was built in 1930 in the style of the 19th century type of large frigates.
		The Amerigo Vespucci belongs to the Accademie Navale in Livorno.
		The Amerigo Vespucci was modernised in 1951 and 1958 and had her last major overhaul in 1964.
	pages.intnet.mu /serenissima/amerogo_vespucci.htm (207 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci Biography (Explorer) — FactMonster.com
		Vespucci was employed by the Florentine Medici family as a representative for their operations in Seville, Spain.
		Although the record is unclear, it is generally accepted that Vespucci sailed with Ojeda to the northeastern coast of South America in 1499, under the flag of Spain.
		Amerigo Vespucci - Vespucci, Amerigo Vespucci, Amerigo, 1454–1512, Italian navigator in whose honor America was...
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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 (528 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci Report
		Amerigo made 2 voyages to the coast of South America for Spain.
		Vespucci became a Spanish citizen in 1505 and went to work for a government agency that over saw commerce with the new world.
		Amerigo Vespucci was a great explorer and if he was never born America probably never would have been called America.
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		However, he was the first explorer to state that it was a new continent instead of the West Indies, which is the location it was previously believed to be.
		Columbus, although a friend of Vespucci's refused to believe that South America was different from the Asian continent and died in 1505, believing that his voyage was through a route to the West Indies.
		Vespucci later claimed that he had made four voyages to the New World, only three of which can be verified.
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	Traditional Boats & Tall Ships - The Magazine for lovers of Sail - Amerigo Vespucci Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Amerigo Vespucci in the harbor of Oslo, 2005.
		The Amerigo Vespucci in the harbor of Oslo, 2005.Akershus Fortress in the background.
		The Amerigo Vespucci often participates in sailing parades and Tall Ships' Races, where she is in amicable rivalry with the Gorch Fock.
	www.tallship.co.uk /tall-ships-close-up/amerigo-vespucci/amerigo-vespucci.html (670 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		VESPUCCI, AMERIGO (1451-1512), a Florentine merchant-adventurer whose selfgenerated claims as an explorer and as the first white man to reach the mainland of America in June 1497 have been doubted owing to the impossible distances and positions quoted in the letters in which the claims were made.
		Vespucci's letters described four voyages in all to the New World, the first a private venture, the second under the Spaniard Alonzo de Ojeda, and the last two in the service of King Manoel of Portugal.
		What Vespucci must have thought about the gang of piratical explorers he got involved with, is anybody's guess.
	www.vrcurassow.com /2dvrc/discovery/vespucci.html (1404 words)

	Italian Cooking and Living - Amerigo Vespucci
		The Amerigo Vespucci, the sailing ship of La Marina Militare Italiana, the Italian navy, is famous for its years of travel and sailing expertise.
		The Amerigo Vespucci was built in 1931 in the naval shipyards of Castellammare di Stabia, situated on the Bay of Naples, and was designed to replicate the Renaissance vessel which the explorer used during his voyages.
		At the bow of the boat a golden statue of explorer Amerigo Vespucci is displayed standing proudly with his right hand over his heart and a rolled up map in his left as he looks out at the sea.
	www.italiancookingandliving.com /homepage_links/hp_Amerigo_adv.html (752 words)

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		Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1499.
		Amerigo was given two ships and as long as Hojeda gave his permission Amerigo was allowed to steer them anywhere he pleased.
		Amerigo’s family had a long relationship with the Spanish Royalty, which made it easy for Amerigo to ask and receive the ships he needed to make the Trips.
	bg016.k12.sd.us /Explorers/amerigo_vespucci.htm (241 words)

	Baby Name Amerigo - Origin and Meaning of Amerigo
		It's fitting that the US, founded on the principle of home rule, should have taken its nickname of "America" from Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
		Amerigo has 6 variant forms: America, Americo, Americus, Amerika, Ameriko and Amerikus.
		Amerigo is a very rare male first name and a very rare surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census).
	www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Amerigo (126 words)

	Exploration - Timeline Index
		Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer known to be the first European to have landed in North America (presumably in Newfoundland, Canada).
		Prince Henry (Henrique) the Navigator (1394-1460) was a Portuguese royal prince, soldier, and patron of explorers.
		America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies.
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