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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived.

March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512
The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please — © Amerigo Vespucci
The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please
I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.
Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.
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