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 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.

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 ".

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

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.

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.

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.

Mixed bands of pro-papal Guelf forces of Florence and allies, Pistoia, Lucca, Siena and Prato, all loosely commanded by the paid condottiero Amerigo di Narbona with his own professional following, met a Ghibelline force from Arezzo including the perhaps reluctant bishop, Guglielmino degli Ubertini, in the plain of Campaldino, which leads from Pratovecchio to Poppi, part of the Tuscan countryside along the upper Arno called the Casentino.

* May 10 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.

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.

Officially they were discovered by Amerigo Vespucci, whose cartographer Juan de la Cosa first described the islands.

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.

On his fourth voyage, in 1502, de la Cosa was the first pilot for the expedition of Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci, and with them was among the first to set foot on the South American mainland on the Gulf of Paria.

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

His first appearance as Floyd the Barber was in a parody of The Godfather, in the opening scene as Amerigo Bonasera, in which he asks the Don to hurt Opie for breaking his barber pole.

The band put out their first record at this time, a single featuring Bruce Eves and Amerigo Maras of the Centre For Experimental Art and Communication.

" 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.

His first appearance was in a parody of The Godfather, in the opening scene as Amerigo Bonasera, in which he asks the Don to hurt Opie for breaking his barber pole.

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.