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In 1886, Jules Marcou said Vespucci renamed himself from Alberigo Vespucci ( Albericus Vespucius ) to Amerigo Vespucci after meeting the native inhabitants of the eponymous Amerrique mountain ranges of Nicaragua that connect North America and South America, an important geographic feature of New World maps and charts.
Amerigo and the New World: The Life & Times of Amerigo Vespucci.
File: Ponte amerigo vespucci. JPG | The Ponte Amerigo Vespucci ( Amerigo Vespucci Bridge )
Explorer Amerigo Vespucci depicted Crux as an almond, called " Mandorla ".
Amerigo Vespucci was perhaps the first European to proffer a solution, after devoting a great deal of time and energy studying the problem during his sojourns in the New World:
* 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
He and Matthias Ringmann are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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.
* World Digital Library presentation of Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorum que lustrationes or A Map of the Entire World According to the Traditional Method of Ptolemy and Corrected with Other Lands of Amerigo Vespucci.
Italy | Italian full-rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci ( ship ) | Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976
* Amerigo Vespucci (1512 )Italian explorer for Spain.
File: Domenico ghirlandaio, amerigo vespucci, ognissanti, Firenze. jpg | Domenico Ghirlandaio, Amerigo Vespucci, part of the Madonna della Misericordia at the Ognissanti church in Florence, c. late 15th century
Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the United States Bicentennial celebration.
* February 22Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, discoverer of the New World ( b. 1454 )

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

Amerigo and 1512
* Amerigo Vespucci ( c. 1454 – 1512 )Italian explorer for Spain and Portugal.
He became a Pilot-Major of Spain in 1512 following the death of Amerigo Vespucci, and was thereafter commissioned to update the Padrón Real with Juan Vespucci.
The famous explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who made at least two voyages to the New World, was a pilot working at the Casa de Contratación until his death in 1512.
* Amerigo Vespucci ( 1454 – 1512 ), Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer

Amerigo and was
The next recorded observation was in 1503 – 4 by Amerigo Vespucci in a letter about his third voyage.
( It was famously during one of these stops, in 1501, where the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci began to construct his " New World " hypothesis about America.
Because Amerike's coat of arms was similar to the flag later adopted by the independent United States, a legend grew that the North American continent had been named for him rather than for Amerigo Vespucci.
It was named “ il Canopo fosco ” ( the dark Canopus ) by Amerigo Vespucci and was also called “ Macula Magellani ” ( Magellan's Spot ) or “ Black Magellanic Cloud ” in opposition to the Magellanic Clouds.
The northeastern tip of South America, Cape São Roque, to the north of Natal, was first officially 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 first European to discover the bay was Alonso de Ojeda on August 24, 1499, on a voyage with Amerigo Vespucci ( the same one for which the American continents were named ).
Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco studied under notable Florentine Renaissance humanists Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano and Giorgo Antonio Vespucci ( uncle of the navigator Amerigo Vespucci ; Amerigo was a fellow-student and, from the 1483, became an employee and friend of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco ; in the early 1500s, Amerigo Vespucci would send most of his famous letters on the " New World " to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco ).
The Venetian Sebastiano Caboto was Sebastián Caboto, Georg von Speyer hispanized as Jorge de la Espira, Eusebius Franz Kühn hispanicized as Eusebio Francisco Kino, Wenceslaus Linck was Wenceslao Linck, Ferdinand Konščak, was Fernando Consag, Amerigo Vespucci was Américo Vespucio, the Portuguese Aleixo Garcia was in Castilian army Alejo García etc.
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.
Prince Amerigo in Henry James's novel The Golden Bowl ( 1904 ) remembered The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: " He remembered to have read as a boy a wonderful tale by Allan Poe ... which was a thing to show, by the way, what imagination Americans could have: the story of the shipwrecked Gordon Pym, who ... found ... a thickness of white air ... of the color of milk or of snow.
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.
These villages are said to have reminded Amerigo Vespucci of the city of Venice, (), and so the area was given the name Venezuela < ref name =" Dydynski_Beech_2004_177 ">
However, according to Giorgio Vasari's " Lives of the Artists " ( Second and Corrected Edition ) Ginevra was not the daughter of Amerigo de ' Benci but his wife.
Amerigo Vespucci was the first European to visit the bay.

Amerigo and Italian
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.
) Amerigo itself is an Italian form of the medieval Latin Emericus ( see also Saint Emeric of Hungary ), which through the German form Heinrich ( in English, Henry ) derived from the Germanic name Haimirich .< ref >
The consensus view is that America is the namesake of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer and cartographer.
* 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 ( album ), an LP by Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini
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.
Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, and the namesake of the Americas was named after him.

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