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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.
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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The book includes the reason for using the name America in the wall map and the globe, and contains a Latin translation of the four journeys of Amerigo Vespucci as an appendix. The full title of the book is: Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis. Insuper quatuor Americi Vespucii ...
It has been argued that the two prints in the Nova reperta series on America of which one shows Amerigo Vespucci's first encounter with the New World and the four symbolic prints making up the Americae retectio series were aimed at showing the presumed important role played by Florence in the discovery of America as Vespucci was a Florentine.
In its second week in Europe, it was the highest-grossing film with a gross of over $7.7 million ($16.7 million today), [11] including $1.77 million in its opening week in Germany ($3.8 million today) [11] from 213 screens. It did not open well in Italy, with only $261,800 in its opening weekend ($568,400 today) [11] from 33 screens.
The work was commissioned by the Vespucci family, probably Amerigo's father Nastaglio, a notary, and his brother Giorgio Antonio, both neighbours of Botticelli. [3] Someone else, probably the order running the church, [ 4 ] commissioned Domenico Ghirlandaio to do a facing Saint Jerome ; both saints were shown writing in their studies, which are ...