Amerigo Vespucci: References & Edit History
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An account of Vespucci’s voyages is found in Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America, vol. 2, The Southern Voyages, A.D. 1492–1616 (1974, reissued 1993). Biographies include Frederick J. Pohl, Amerigo Vespucci, Pilot Major (1944, reissued 1979); Germán Arciniegas, Amerigo and the New World: The Life and Times of Amerigo Vespucci (1955, reprinted 1978); and Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America (2007). Luciano Formisano (ed.), Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci’s Discovery of America, trans. by David Jacobson (1992), is the first English-language compilation of Vespucci’s letters and other pertinent documents.
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Article History
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| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Young Amerigo and His Family. | Jul 10, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Venice University Press - The Final Years of Vespucci and His Scientific Merits (PDF). | Sep 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - New book sheds light on explorer Vespucci. | Jul 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Young Amerigo and His Family. | May 20, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - Americo Vespucio�Pioneer Celo-Navigator And Geographer. | Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Revisiting Amerigo Vespuccis biography and his role in the discovery of America. | Sep 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Today - The Birth of Amerigo Vespucci. | May 02, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Mariner's Musem and Park - The Ages of Exploration - Amerigo Vespucci. | Dec 08, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Amerigo Vespucci: The Forgotten Explorer Who Named America. | Sep 19, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - Amerigo Vespucci: Facts, Biography & Naming of America. | Jun 15, 2021 | ||
| Added an image of a statue of Amerigo Vespucci. | Dec 23, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Explorers - Biography of Amerigo Vespucci. | May 03, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Colonial America - Amerigo Vespucci Facts. | May 03, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 03, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Mariners' Museum - Exploration through the Ages - Biography of Amerigo Vespucci. | Jul 21, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Biography of Amerigo Vespucci. | Jul 21, 2013 | ||
| In the Early life section, changed "Italian family of Medici" to "Italian Medici family" and "in the name of Vespucci dated from Lisbon, Portugal, September 4, 1504" to "in the name of Vespucci from Lisbon, Portugal, dated September 4, 1504." |
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Oct 17, 2011 | |
| Added question mark to birth year, as the baptismal record from which it's derived may relate to a brother who died in infancy before Vespucci's birth. | Mar 13, 2009 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Oct 27, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 27, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography reviewed. | Mar 22, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 22, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 22, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 16, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 27, 1999 |
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