The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

The book, first printed in the city of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, includes in its second part, a translation to Latin of the Quattuor Americi Vespuccij navigationes ( Four Voyages of Americo Vespucci ), which is apparently a letter written by Amerigo Vespucci, although some historians consider it to have been a forgery written by its supposed recipient in Italy.

Americus Vespucius is the Latinized version of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, and America is the feminine form of Americus.

Amerigen is explained as Amerigo plus gen, the accusative case of the Greek word for ' earth ', and meaning ' land of Amerigo '.

Teodoro is sold to Messer Amerigo as a slave when still a child.

The consensus view is that America is the namesake of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer and cartographer.

The traditionally accepted person attributed to the naming is cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who used the Latinized feminine form of Amerigo Vespucci's first name, " America ", on his world map of 1507, which has survived the centuries.

Amerigo Tot is a sculptor of Hungarian origin.

America is so named in honour of either Amerigo Vespucci ( who referred to himself in writing as Americus Vespucius ), who was one of the first to assert that America was a newly discovered continent or from Richard Amerike.

It is possible that the Aurora islands were " discovered " by Amerigo Vespucci in his 1501 / 1502 voyage with a Portuguese expedition.

The probability is confirmed by Vice-Admiral Ernesto Basilico in The Third Voyage of Amerigo Vespucci ( Buenos Aires, 1967 ) and by Lt-Cdr Barreiro Meiro ( General Journal of Navy, October 1968, Madrid ).

" In both the book and the first scene of the first film, he chastises undertaker Amerigo Bonasera for going to the police instead of coming to him first, after his daughter is viciously beaten in an attempted sexual assault.

The Cei-Rigotti is an early automatic rifle created by Amerigo Cei-Rigotti, an officer in the Italian Army, in 1890, and extensively modified until its final form circa 1900.

" There is a fourth quarter of the world which Amerigo Vespucci has discovered and which for this reason we can call ' America ' or the land of Americo.

Florence's " Amerigo Vespucci " airport is to the east.

The commander of this expedition is unknown, but it was accompanied by Amerigo Vespucci, who wrote an account of it.

Amerigo Vespucci's Latinized name, Americus Vespucius, is probably the origin of the name of two continents, changed to the feminine to match the other continents.

It is sometimes claimed to be the birthplace of Amerigo Vespucci.

A house in the circular main street of Montefioralle is pointed out as the birth-place of Amerigo Vespucci.

Eaton Square is the address of Prince Amerigo and his wife, the former Maggie Verver, in the last complete major novel by Henry James, The Golden Bowl.

Utopia is placed in the New World and More links Raphael's travels in with Amerigo Vespucci's real life voyages of discovery.

Amerigo Vespucci () ( March 9, 1454February 22, 1512 ) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.

Italy | Italian full-rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci ( ship ) | Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976

* Amerigo Vespucci ( – 1512 ) – Italian explorer for Spain.

Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the United States Bicentennial celebration.

* February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, discoverer of the New World ( b. 1454 )

* March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer ( d. 1512 )

* Amerigo Vespucci ( c. 1454 – 1512 ) – Italian explorer for Spain and Portugal.

* Italian: Enrico, Enzo, Amerigo, Arrigo, Emerico ; Enrica, Enrichetta ( female names ),

Image: Amerigo_vespucci_1976_nyc_aufgetakelt. jpg | Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the celebration.

Italian explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries left a perennial mark on human history with the modern " discovery of America ", due to Christopher Columbus ; furthermore, the name of the American continents derives from Amerigo Vespucci's first name.

* Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer

He travelled with the pilot and cartographer Juan de la Cosa and the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

* Amerigo Vespucci ( 1454-1512 ) Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer whose first name was Americus in Latin

Amerigo Vespucci ( ship ) | Amerigo Vespucci, full-rigged ship of the Italian Marina Militare.

* Amerigo Vespucci of the Italian Navy

* Amerigo Dumini ( 1894 – 1967 ), Italian fascist activist

* Amerigo Vespucci ( 1454 – 1512 ), Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer

* Amerigo ( album ), an LP by Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini

Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, and the namesake of the Americas was named after him.

The northeastern tip of South America, Cabo São Roque, to the north of Natal and the closest point to Europe from Latin America, was first visited by European navigators in 1501, in the 1501 – 1502 Portuguese expedition led by Amerigo Vespucci, who named the spot after the saint of the day.

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 term was first coined by the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci, in a letter written to his patron Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de ' Medici in the Spring of 1503, and published ( in Latin ) in 1503-04 under the title Mundus Novus.