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'''Amerigo Vespucci''' (9 March 1454 | '''Amerigo Vespucci''' (9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an [[Italy|Italian]] explorer, navigator and cartographer, and the cousin of [[Cristina Vespucci]].<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 20:46, 8 August 2014
Amerigo Vespucci (9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer, and the cousin of Cristina Vespucci.[1]
Biography
Amerigo became an explorer because of Cristina, who insisted to Lorenzo de' Medici to make him one; at the time, Amerigo was a clerk at the House of Medici bank. Lorenzo took her advice and several years later, Amerigo was the first to map out the New World, which was later named after him.[1]
Amerigo confirmed the discoveries of Christoffa Corombo, and interrogated and tortured Micheletto Corella in the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence, with Piero Soderini and the secret Assassin Niccolò Machiavelli.[2]
Trivia
- The term "America" was presumably derived from the feminized Latin version of Amerigo.