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Amerigo Vespucci
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Who Was Amerigo Vespucci?
On May 10, , explorer Amerigo Vespucci embarked on his first voyage. On his third and most successful voyage, he discovered present-day Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata.
Believing he had discovered a new continent, he called South America the New World.
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In , America was named after him. He died of malaria in Seville, Spain, on February 22,
Early Life
Navigator and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the third son in a cultured family, was born on March 9, , (some scholars say ) in Florence, Italy.
Although born in Italy, Vespucci became a naturalized citizen of Spain in
Vespucci and his parents, Ser Nastagio and Lisabetta Mini, were friends of the wealthy and tempestuous Medici family, who ruled Italy from the s to Vespucci's father worked as a notary in Florence.
While his older brothers headed off to the University of Pisa in Tuscany, Vespucci received his early education from his paternal uncle, a Dominican friar named Giorgio An