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Amerigo Vespucci

noun
1.
Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512).  Synonyms: Americus Vespucius, Vespucci.






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"Amerigo Vespucci" Quotes from Famous Books



... as the New World was eventually to be dominated by a nation other than that which first took possession of it, so was it to be named after a man other than its discoverer: an inconsiderable adventurer named Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine, who accompanied three or four Spanish expeditions as astronomer or pilot, but who had no part in any real discovery in the New World. He wrote a number of letters describing the voyages which ...
— American Men of Action • Burton E. Stevenson

... horses of the Atlantic once mastered, there came riders enough. During the next thirty years such men as Amerigo Vespucci (who enjoyed the not singular distinction of having his name associated with the discovery of another man), the Cabots, father and son; Balboa, and Magellan, crossed the sea and visited the new domain. Magellan performed the only ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

... with a few necessary alterations, such as would make himself, not La Salle, the hero of the expedition. This pirated account, written in Hennepin's picturesque style, met with great success in Europe and was translated into several languages. We are reminded of the sensation which was made by Amerigo Vespucci's fanciful tales of the New World. (See "Pioneer Spaniards ...
— French Pathfinders in North America • William Henry Johnson



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