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    Amerigo Vespucci (/vɛˈspuːtʃi/ vesp-OO-chee, Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1451 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from...
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    The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Its home port is La Spezia, Italy...
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    Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was known as the greatest beauty of her...
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  • Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512) was an Italian explorer and cartographer. Amerigo Vespucci may also refer to: CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci, a container ship...
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  • Colegio Amerigo Vespucci is an Italian private school in Caracas, Venezuela. The college is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, navigator...
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    Amerigo Vespucci's Letter from Seville (18 July 1500), written to his patron Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, describes experiences on Alonso de Ojeda's...
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  • The prix Amerigo-Vespucci is a French literary award established in 1990, during the first International Festival of Geography [fr] (IFG) at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges...
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    Americas in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following...
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  • SS Amerigo Vespucci (Hull Number 2767) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian...
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    FLR, ICAO: LIRQ), in Italian Aeroporto di Firenze-Peretola, formally Amerigo Vespucci Airport, is the international airport of Florence, the capital of the...
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    16th century during Europe's Age of Discovery, after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci published the Latin-language pamphlet Mundus Novus, presenting his...
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    Ponte Amerigo Vespucci is a bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy and named after Florence-born explorer Amerigo Vespucci. It joins the Lungarno...
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  • Look up Vespucci in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vespucci may refer to: Agostino Vespucci of Florence Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, assistant...
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    Amerigo Vespucci was a screw corvette of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The design for Amerigo Vespucci...
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    CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci is an Explorer class containership built for CMA CGM. It is named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. It has a capacity of...
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    America to name a portion of the New World in honour of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci in a world map they delineated in 1507. Waldseemüller was also the...
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    captain (possibly André Gonçalves) and also accompanied by Amerigo Vespucci. According to Vespucci, this expedition returned to Lisbon in September 1502,...
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    Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection...
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  • Thodé (born 1950), Curaçaoan politician Amerigo Tot (1909–1984), Hungarian sculptor and actor Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), Italian merchant, explorer...
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    Greve in Chianti. It is sometimes claimed to be the birthplace of Amerigo Vespucci. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages...
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    in 1506, and the next year, the New World was named "America" after Amerigo Vespucci, who realized that it was a unique landmass. The search for a westward...
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  • sailor and a voyager. This term is mostly used to describe persons from early modern history. An example of a pilot major is Amerigo Vespucci. v t e v t e...
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    Amerigo Vespucci: Pilot Major. New York: Octagon Books. pp. 54–55. [1] Archived 2021-11-08 at the Wayback Machine Arciniegas, German (1978) Amerigo and...
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    Americans. The name America came from the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. Amerigo Vespucci first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not...
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    Vecchio is to the left The Arno in Florence at night The Ponte Amerigo Vespucci (Amerigo Vespucci Bridge) "Arno River - WorldAtlas". WorldAtlas. Retrieved January...
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    1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Ringmann was born in 1482 in the small farming village of Eichhoffen...
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    Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Curaçao, Aruba and Colombia, at times with Amerigo Vespucci and Juan de la Cosa. He is famous for having named Venezuela, which...
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    painter, Sandro Botticelli, as well as Age of Discovery-era explorer Amerigo Vespucci, from whom the name "America" is derived. It was completed originally...
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    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...
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    explains their name as a joke: "Amerigo Vespucci is the guy who discovered America so it stands to reason that Antarctigo Vespucci would be the guy who discovered...
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