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Definition of Amerigo Vespucci
1. Noun. Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amerigo Vespucci
Literary usage of Amerigo Vespucci
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... each year, a medal commemorative of some benefactor of America, decided that
the first of these medals should be coined in honour of Amerigo Vespucci, ..."
2. Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1871)
"X. Amerigo Vespucci. AMONG the earliest and most intelligent of the voyagers who
followed the track of Columbus, was Amerigo Vespucci. ..."
3. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1886)
"Amerigo Vespucci. BY SYDNEY HOWARD GAY. A MERIGO VESPUCCI,1 the third son of ...
Alberico formly calls him Amerigo Vespucci; and that or Americo (Gomara); ..."
4. Spain in America, 1450-1580 by Edward Gaylord Bourne (1904)
"CHAPTER VII Amerigo Vespucci AND THE NAMING OF AMERICA (1499-1507) THE voyages
... Amerigo Vespucci, generally known to the English world under a Latinized ..."
5. Works by Washington Irving (1892)
"HIS FIRST VOYAGE, IN WHICH HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY Amerigo Vespucci.f ... OF OJEDA—OF
JUAN DE LA COSA— OF Amerigo Vespucci—PREPARATIONS FOR THE VOYAGE. ..."
6. The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus; to which are added those of by Washington Irving (1885)
"X. Amerigo Vespucci. AMONG the earliest and most intelligent of the voyagers who
followed the track of Columbus, was Amerigo Vespucci. ..."
7. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1903)
"CHAPTER VIII Amerigo Vespucci AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONTINENT ALTHOUGH Columbus
had sighted the mainland of America on his third voyage, in 1498, ..."
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