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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.
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 ...
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.
The Americas were named in 1507 by cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, after Amerigo Vespucci. From 1501 to 1502, one of these Portuguese expeditions, led by Gonçalo Coelho (and/or André Gonçalves or Gaspar de Lemos), sailed south along the coast of South America to the bay of present-day Rio de Janeiro.
With Lorenzo back in power, Leonardo says he must leave to find a ship to continue his search for the Book and his mother. Lorenzo gives his blessing, and, to signify their new bond, gives him the smaller of the two Medici longswords, cleverly hidden within the larger one by Cosimo. Da Vinci has a rendez-vous with Amerigo Vespucci.
1492: Conquest of Paradise opened on 66 screens in Spain, grossing $1 million in its first five days [10] ($2.2 million today). [11] In the United States and Canada, it was released by Paramount Pictures on 9 October 1992 in 1,008 theaters.
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
Amerigo Serrao, birth name of Arthur Varney, American screenwriter and film director; Amerigo Severini, Italian cyclist; Amerigo Thodé (born 1950), Curaçaoan politician; Amerigo Tot (1909–1984), Hungarian sculptor and actor; Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer after whom the American continents were named