NOUN
- Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512)
How To Use Vespucci In A Sentence
- Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian-born merchant and explorer who took part in early voyages to the New World on behalf of Spain around the late 15th century.
- A year later, Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci sailed to Brazil on a voyage commissioned by the Portuguese crown and returned home with a cargo of hard, reddish wood.
- In Florence, too, the hell-on-earth created by priestcraft is coarsely and pungently denounced: young Vespucci capers happily around the pyre on the day that Savonarola is burned and the reign of clerical puritan terror brought to a close. Cassocks and Codpieces
- Two published letters attributed to the Florentine Amerigo Vespucci tell of a staggering new work of cartology: the USC Interactive Media Division
- A second Italian, Amerigo Vespucci , actually argued that the landmass to the west of Europe was a whole new continent.
- In 1505, by a royal decree of 14 April of that year, he had received Spanish naturalization, and a decree of 6 August, 1508, named him piloto mayor de España, a title corresponding to the modern one of head of the admiralty, and which was borne by Vespucci until his death. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
