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  2. Agostino Vespucci - Wikipedia

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    Agostino Vespucci was a Florentine chancellery official, clerk, and assistant to Niccolò Machiavelli, among others. [3] He is most well known for helping to confirm the subject of Leonardo da Vinci 's Mona Lisa as Lisa del Giocondo , [ 4 ] and is also the author of a number of surviving letters and manuscripts.

  3. Historic tall ship to bring touch of Italy to foreign shores

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    The Amerigo Vespucci, which Italians call the world's most beautiful ship, is taking a taste of its homeland on a round-the-world tour, with temporary expositions at several stops showcasing ...

  4. Elderly Instruments - Wikipedia

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    In addition to a printed catalog, Elderly sends lists of available vintage instruments to subscribers in the U.S. and several other countries by mail and e-mail. Elderly purchases some of its used instruments from customers and then offers them for sale, while others are offered on consignment.

  5. Vespucci - Wikipedia

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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

  6. Amerigo Vespucci Letter from Seville - Wikipedia

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    Vespucci was satisfied with the voyage because he crossed the equator successfully and explored the tropics, which were called the Torrid Zone at that time, and investigated rivers and different plant and animal species. While Vespucci sailed south in the Atlantic Ocean, he and his crew became lost because of a miscalculation of only a few degrees.

  7. Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci - Wikipedia

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    Starting from 2013, the Vespucci depends directly on the Commander in Chief Naval Fleet. The Amerigo Vespucci on her visit to Argentina, March 2024. The ship received major modernization works from 2013 to 2016. On 22 November 2024, Amerigo Vespucci conducted a joint sailing exercise with the INS Taringi of the Indian Navy off the coast of ...

  8. Term Catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The average catalogue listed 109 books under 10 headings. Some catalogues had up to 13 headings; the minimum was six in the small catalogue that appeared for Hillary 1708. The first catalogues had begun with 40 to 50 titles; later catalogues reached 150 to 200 titles. The Easter catalogue of 1689 listed the exceptional number of 293 books.

  9. Noronhomys - Wikipedia

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    Noronhomys vespuccii, also known as Vespucci's rodent, [2] is an extinct rat species from the islands of Fernando de Noronha off northeastern Brazil.Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci may have seen it on a visit to Fernando de Noronha in 1503, but it subsequently became extinct, perhaps because of the exotic rats and mice introduced by the first explorers of the island.