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Amerigo Vespucci

Also known as Americo Vespucio, Amerigo-Vespucci

Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer

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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, merchant, cartographer, and writer. Born in Florence in 1454, he held citizenship in the Republic of Florence and the Crown of Castile. He spoke and wrote in Italian and Spanish. Vespucci was a member of the Franciscans religious order.

He died in Seville on 22 February 1512 due to malaria. His death resulted from natural causes. Vespucci is described by sources including Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and The Nuttall Encyclopædia. He produced twenty works during his lifetime.

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Crown of Castile
Place of birth: Florence
Place of death: Seville
Occupation: writer
Languages spoken: Spanish
Image: Amerigo Vespucci01.jpg
Religious order: Franciscans

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Commons category: Amerigo Vespucci
date of birth: 1454-03-09
date of death: 1512-02-22
described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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manner of death: natural causes
ethnic group: Italians
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cause of death: malaria
different from: Amerigo Vespucci
name in native language: Amerigo Vespucci
Commons Creator page: Amerigo Vespucci

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Works in European collections

20 objects attributed to Amerigo Vespucci, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Varia historica, theologica et philisophica

Newe vnbekanthe landte Und ein newe weldte in kurtz verganger zeythe erfunden

Diß Büchlin saget, wie die zwen durchlüchtigsten Herren Her Fernandus K. zu Castilien und Herr Emanuel K. zu Portugal haben das weyte Mör ersuchet und funden vil Insulen unnd ein nüwe Welt ... vormals unbekant

Band 9: Mundus novus : Ein Bericht Amerigo Vespucci's an Lorenzo de Medici über seine Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1501/02.: Drucke und Holzschnitte des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts in getreuer Nachbildung

De ora antarctica per regem Portugallie pridem inuenta

IORNANDES DE REBVS GOTHORVM /

Sensuyt le nouveau monde et navigations: faictes par Emeric de vespuce Florentin, Des pays et illes nouvellement trounez, auparavant a nous incongneuz, Fant en l'ethiope que arrabie Calichut et aultres plisieurs regions estranges

Allerälteste Nachricht von der Neuen Welt

The letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career

Indiæ Orientalis Pars Undecima. qua continetur I. Duarum navigationum, quas jussu Emanuelis, Portugalliae Regis, in Indiam Orientalem Ann. 1501. Dn. Americus Vesputius instituit, historia. II. Vera atque hactenus inaudita Angli cujusdam [R. Coverte] relatio, qui ... in extremam Indiae Orientalis oram Cambajam vectus ... plurimas nobis incognitas regiones ... peragravit ... III. Descriptio regionis Spitzbergae: addita simul relatione injuriarum, quas Ann. 1613. alii piscatores ab Anglis perpessi sunt ... Nunc primum latio donata, atq[ue] ... imaginibus illustrata

Von der neüwen gefunde[n] Region die wol ein wellt genennt mag werden : durch den Cristenlichen künig von Portugal gar wunderlich vnd selczam erfunden

Americus Vespucci, eines florenzischen Edelmannes, Leben und nachgelassene Briefe, worinnen dessen Entdeckungen der neuen Welt und die Merkwürdigkeiten seiner Reisen historisch und geographisch beschrieben werden. Aus dem Jtalienischen des Herrn Abts Angelus Maria Bandini übersetzet, und mit Anmerkungen erläutert

Mundus nouus

Von der neüw gefunden Region die wol ain welt genent mag werden/ durch den Christenlichen künig von portugal/ wunderbarlich erfunden

Mundus nouus (novus). (Albericus vespucius Laurentio Petri ... salutem ... dicit.)

Von der new gefunden Region die noch ein welt genennt mag werden, durch den Cristenlichen Künig von Portugall wunderbarlich erfunden

Uon der neüw gefunden Region die wol ain welt genent mag werden : durch den Cristenlichen künig von Portugal wunderbarlich erfunden

Viaggi d'Amerigo Vespucci

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Encyclopedic overview

Amerigo Vespucci (9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom America is named.

Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery between 1497 and 1504, first on behalf of Spain (1499–1500) and then for Portugal (1501–1502). In 1503 and 1505, two booklets were published under his name containing colourful descriptions of these explorations and other voyages. Both publications were extremely popular and widely read throughout much of Europe. Historians still dispute the authorship and veracity of these accounts, but they were instrumental in raising awareness of the discoveries and enhancing the reputation of Vespucci as an explorer and navigator.

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