Author: Amerigo VespucciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents Illustrating His Career
Author: Amerigo VespucciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
AMERIGO VESPUCCI – Discover the Man Behind the Legend
Author: Christopher ColumbusPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, 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 Europeans. Colloquially named the New World, this second super continent came to be known as "Americas", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin transcription of Vespucci's first name. Learn more about the man who gave his name to the new continent, read his personal letters, diaries and what his contemporaries wrote about him. Table of Contents: Biography of Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick A. Ober Life of Vespucci by Clements R. Markham Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to a "Magnificent Lord" Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo Pietro F. di Medici Evidence of Alonso de Hojeda respecting his Voyage of 1499 Account of the Voyage of Hojeda, 1499-1500, by Navarrete Letter of the Admiral Christopher Columbus to his Son Letter of Vianelo to the Seigneury of Venice Letter of Naturalization in Favour of Vespucci Appointment of Amerigo Vespucci as Chief Pilot Chapters from Las Casas, which discuss the Statements of Vespucci: Evidence respecting the Voyage of Pinzon and Solis Las Casas on the Voyage of Pinzon and Solis
The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
Author: Amerigo VespucciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career
Author: Amerigo VespucciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci Reprinted in Facsimile and Tr. from the Rare Original Edition (Florence, 1505-6).
Author: Amerigo VespucciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Letters from a New World
Author: Amerigo VespucciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The letters he wrote that convinced Europeans to name the New World America (after him).
Who in the World Was the Forgotten Explorer
Author: Lorene LambertPublisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 097286038X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Covers the life of Amerigo Vespucci, from his boyhood in Florence to his days as an explorer for Spain and Portugal.
Amerigo
Author: Felipe Fernández-ArmestoPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 030751255X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer. In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a sometime slaver and small-time jewel trader; a contemporary, confidant, and rival of Columbus; an amateur sorcerer who attained fame and honor by dint of a series of disastrous failures and equally grand self-reinventions. Filled with well-informed insights and amazing anecdotes, this magisterial and compulsively readable account sweeps readers from Medicean Florence to the Sevillian court of Ferdinand and Isabella, then across the Atlantic of Columbus to the brave New World where fortune favored the bold. Amerigo Vespucci emerges from these pages as an irresistible avatar for the age of exploration–and as a man of genuine achievement as a voyager and chronicler of discovery. A product of the Florentine Renaissance, Amerigo in many ways was like his native Florence at the turn of the sixteenth century: fast-paced, flashy, competitive, acquisitive, and violent. His ability to sell himself–evident now, 500 years later, as an entire hemisphere that he did not “discover” bears his name–was legendary. But as Fernández-Armesto ably demonstrates, there was indeed some fire to go with all the smoke: In addition to being a relentless salesman and possibly a ruthless appropriator of other people’s efforts, Amerigo was foremost a person of unique abilities, courage, and cunning. And now, in Amerigo, this mercurial and elusive figure finally has a biography to do full justice to both the man and his remarkable era. “A dazzling new biography . . . an elegant tale.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An outstanding historian of Atlantic exploration, Fernández-Armesto delves into the oddities of cultural transmission that attached the name America to the continents discovered in the 1490s. Most know that it honors Amerigo Vespucci, whom the author introduces as an amazing Renaissance character independent of his name’s fame–and does Fernández-Armesto ever deliver.” –Booklist (starred review)
Forgotten Voyager
Author: Ann Fitzpatrick AlperPublisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780876144428
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A biography of the Italian-born merchant, explorer, and navigator who made several voyages to the New World and for whom America is named.
The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
Author: Amerigo VespucciPublisher:
ISBN: 9781601051394
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
2007 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition of this London: 1893 publication reproduced in facsimile and with translation and Introduction the central documents for Vespucci and his explorations, including the Soderini letter.