Dec 31, 2009
Article abstract: The first European credited with persuading his contemporaries that what Christopher Columbus had discovered was a “New World,” Vespucci revolutionized geographic thinking when he argued that this region now bearing his name was a continent distinct from Asia.
Amerigo Vespucci was the third son of a Florentine family of five children. His father, Stagio Vespucci, was a modestly prosperous notary and a member of a respected and learned clan that cultivated good relations with Florence’s intellectual and artistic elite....
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