Amerigo Vespucci (/vɛˈspuːtʃi/ vesp-OO-chee, Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from...
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The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Her home port is La Spezia, Italy...
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Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was known as the greatest beauty of her...
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Florence Airport (redirect from Amerigo Vespucci Airport)
FLR, ICAO: LIRQ), in Italian Aeroporto di Firenze-Peretola, formally Amerigo Vespucci Airport, is the international airport of Florence, the capital of the...
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Naming of the Americas (section Amerigo Vespucci)
South America. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following...
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late 1499 of part of the expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda, in which Amerigo Vespucci took part. Also, to the expedition led by Spanish navigator and explorer...
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16th century during Europe's Age of Discovery, after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci published the Latin-language pamphlet Mundus Novus, presenting his...
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Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512) was an Italian explorer and cartographer. Amerigo Vespucci may also refer to: CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci, a container ship...
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Amerigo Vespucci was a screw corvette of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The design for Amerigo Vespucci...
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Ponte Amerigo Vespucci is a bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy and named after Florence-born explorer Amerigo Vespucci. It joins the Lungarno...
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Amerigo Vespucci's Letter from Seville (18 July 1500), written to his patron Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, describes experiences on Alonso de Ojeda's...
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Colegio Amerigo Vespucci is an Italian private school in Caracas, Venezuela. The college is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, navigator...
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CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci is an Explorer class containership built for CMA CGM. It is named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. It has a capacity of...
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is sometimes claimed to be the birthplace of Amerigo Vespucci, though in fact it is known that Vespucci was born (on 9 March 1454) in Florence, in the...
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Rome. Meloni graduated from Istituto tecnico professionale di Stato Amerigo Vespucci in 1996. After her election to the Italian Parliament in 2006, she...
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Look up Vespucci in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vespucci may refer to: Agostino Vespucci of Florence Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, assistant...
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America to name a portion of the New World in honour of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, coming from the Old High German name Emmerich, in a world map they...
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Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. The map also first showed the Pacific Ocean, separating the Americas...
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and also accompanied by Amerigo Vespucci. The 1501 mapping expedition is also known as the "Third Voyage" of Amerigo Vespucci (and his first under the...
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explains their name as a joke: "Amerigo Vespucci is the guy who discovered America so it stands to reason that Antarctigo Vespucci would be the guy who discovered...
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Amerigo Vespucci: Pilot Major. New York: Octagon Books. pp. 54–55. [1] Archived 2021-11-08 at the Wayback Machine Arciniegas, German (1978) Amerigo and...
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companies. The transit companies also accommodate travellers from the Amerigo Vespucci Airport, which is 5 km (3 mi) west of the city centre, and which has...
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1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, coming from the Old High German name Emmerich. Ringmann was born in...
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having derived its name from Mexica, the Nahuatl term for the Aztecs. Amerigo Vespucci, along with other explorers, is credited with the discovery of the...
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accepted that the name "America" derives from the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The term dates back to 1507, when it appeared on a world map created...
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The prix Amerigo-Vespucci is a French literary award established in 1990, during the first International Festival of Geography [fr] (IFG) at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges...
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Agostino Vespucci was a Florentine chancellery official, clerk, and assistant to Niccolò Machiavelli, among others. He is most well known for helping to...
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Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Curaçao, Aruba and Colombia, at times with Amerigo Vespucci and Juan de la Cosa. He is famous for having named Venezuela, which...
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painter, Sandro Botticelli, as well as Age of Discovery-era explorer Amerigo Vespucci, from whom the name "America" is derived. It was completed originally...
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Noronhomys (redirect from Vespucci's rodent)
as Vespucci's rodent, is an extinct rat species from the islands of Fernando de Noronha off northeastern Brazil. Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci may...
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