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Amerigo Vespucci (/ v ɛ ˈ s p uː tʃ i / vesp-OO-chee, [1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom "America" is named.
It set off from Genoa in northern Italy last July for its first world tour in 20 years, which will take it to over 30 ports in five continen Historic tall ship to bring touch of Italy to foreign ...
Juan Díaz de Solís (c. 1470–1516), [5] Portuguese or Spanish navigator and explorer, appointed in 1512 following the death of Vespucci [6] Sebastian Cabot [ 3 ] : 321 [ 7 ] (c. 1474–c. 1557), Venetian explorer, Pilot Major of Spain from 5 February 1518 to 25 October 1525, succeeding Díaz de Solís, [ 5 ] and again from 1533 to 1547 [ 3 ...
Under auxiliary diesel-electric propulsion the Amerigo Vespucci can reach 10 knots (19 km/h) and has a range of 5450 nm at 6.5 knots. The Amerigo Vespucci in the harbor of Oslo, 2005. Akershus Fortress in the background. The Amerigo Vespucci, after the modernization works, in the harbor of La Rochelle, 2018.
In 1497, Vespucci sailed with Spain and left Cadiz, Spain on his first journey where he was sailing through the West Indies. [4] In the "Letter from Seville", he wrote that "we sailed for about thirteen hundred leagues to that land from the city of Cadiz" [ 5 ] However, the voyage in 1497 was to reach the West Indies instead of Brazil.
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Agostino Vespucci of Florence; Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, assistant of Christopher Columbus and after whom the American continent was named. Simonetta Vespucci, Italian Renaissance noblewoman from Genoa
English: Woodcut probably depicting Amerigo Vespucci's first voyage (1497-98) to the New World, from first known published edition of Vespucci's 1504 Letter to Soderini, entitled "Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci delle isole nuovament trovate in quattro suoi viaggi", published by Pietro Pacini in Florence c.1505.