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Amerigo

Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030751255X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Amerigo written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer. In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a sometime slaver and small-time jewel trader; a contemporary, confidant, and rival of Columbus; an amateur sorcerer who attained fame and honor by dint of a series of disastrous failures and equally grand self-reinventions. Filled with well-informed insights and amazing anecdotes, this magisterial and compulsively readable account sweeps readers from Medicean Florence to the Sevillian court of Ferdinand and Isabella, then across the Atlantic of Columbus to the brave New World where fortune favored the bold. Amerigo Vespucci emerges from these pages as an irresistible avatar for the age of exploration–and as a man of genuine achievement as a voyager and chronicler of discovery. A product of the Florentine Renaissance, Amerigo in many ways was like his native Florence at the turn of the sixteenth century: fast-paced, flashy, competitive, acquisitive, and violent. His ability to sell himself–evident now, 500 years later, as an entire hemisphere that he did not “discover” bears his name–was legendary. But as Fernández-Armesto ably demonstrates, there was indeed some fire to go with all the smoke: In addition to being a relentless salesman and possibly a ruthless appropriator of other people’s efforts, Amerigo was foremost a person of unique abilities, courage, and cunning. And now, in Amerigo, this mercurial and elusive figure finally has a biography to do full justice to both the man and his remarkable era. “A dazzling new biography . . . an elegant tale.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An outstanding historian of Atlantic exploration, Fernández-Armesto delves into the oddities of cultural transmission that attached the name America to the continents discovered in the 1490s. Most know that it honors Amerigo Vespucci, whom the author introduces as an amazing Renaissance character independent of his name’s fame–and does Fernández-Armesto ever deliver.” –Booklist (starred review)

The Naming of America

Author : Martin Waldseemüller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naming of America written by Martin Waldseemüller and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book features a facsimile of the 1507 World Map by Martin Waldseemuller - the first map ever to display the name America - and tells the fascinating story behind its creation in 16th-century France and rediscovery 300 years later in the library of Wolfegg Castle, Germany, in 1901. It also includes a completely new translation and commentary to Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann's seminal cartographic text, the Cosmographiae Introductio, which originally accompanied the World Map. John Hessler considers answers to some of the key questions raised by the map's representation of the New World, including "How was it possible for a small group of cartographers to have produced a view of the world so radical for its time and so close to the one we recognize today?"; and "What evidence did they possess to show the existence of the Pacific Ocean when neither Vasco Nunez de Balboa nor Ferdinand Magellan had yet reached it'." There are no easy answers, and yet, as this fascinating book reveals, this group of unknowns created some of the most important maps in the history of cartography, and afford us a glimpse into an age when accepted scientific and geographic principles fell away, spawning the birth of modernity.

Amerigo and the New World

Author : Germán Arciniegas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amerigo and the New World written by Germán Arciniegas and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amerigo Vespucci and the Naming of America

Author : Frederick A. Ober
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781714130054
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Amerigo Vespucci and the Naming of America by : Frederick A. Ober

Download or read book Amerigo Vespucci and the Naming of America written by Frederick A. Ober and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continent of "America" is named not after Christopher Columbus, but rather his contemporary navigator and explorer, Amerigo Vespucci-and this book tells his story, and how his name came to be given to the New World. Drawing heavily upon Vespucci's own writings, this work provides a little-known insight into the background, voyages, discoveries and life of the Florence-born explorer, who ended his life as the "pilot navigator" of Spain. In that position-the most senior post in charge of mapping out the new world-Vespucci's genius was acknowledged across Europe, and the accuracy of his maps superseded all others. Vespucci not only mapped out vast areas of the New World, but also personally undertook at least four major voyages of discovery himself, working alternatively for the Spanish and Portuguese crowns. Never taking any personal credit or wealth, Vespucci's low-key approach meant that he was overshadowed by the more outgoing explorers of his age-men such as Columbus-yet, as his papers show, he knew them all and provided much valuable knowledge to all those who asked him. Finally, in a move which would have been as much a surprise to himself as anyone else, the continents of both North and South America were named after him-because of a strange quirk of history, described in full in this book.

Why America?

Author : Germán Arciniegas
Publisher : Villegas Asociados
ISBN 13 : 9789588160184
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Why America? written by Germán Arciniegas and published by Villegas Asociados. This book was released on 2002 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that the Americas were named after Florentine Amérigo Vespucci, he has been one of the least researched characters in American history. In this profile, Vespucci is revealed as a smart, trustworthy businessman and explorer, worthy of this new world's honor.

Letters from a New World

Author : Amerigo Vespucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from a New World written by Amerigo Vespucci and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters he wrote that convinced Europeans to name the New World America (after him).

Putting "America" on the Map

Author : Seymour I. Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Putting "America" on the Map written by Seymour I. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1507 the Waldseemuller World Map was created. It was the first time a map included the continental landmasses in the Western Hemisphere. The name "America" was inserted on the southern continent. Since then it has been surrounded by many intrigues.

Amerigo Vespucci

Author : Charles Lester Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906421021
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Amerigo Vespucci written by Charles Lester Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), the Italian explorer whose discoveries led to the continent of America being named after him. Amerigo Vespucci made four voyages during which he discovered a lot of the coastline and rivers of South, Central and North America. The first of Amerigo's voyages has been disputed since he first described it, because it meant that Amerigo Vespucci had reached the mainland of America before Christopher Columbus. So instead of the continent of America being named after Columbus, it came to be named America after Amerigo. Often out of resentment at the lessening of Columbus's achievements, allegations have persisted for centuries that Amerigo or somebody else has either fabricated much of what was described of his voyages, or has been mistaken in what was written. Amerigo saw peoples, plants and animals never seen before by Europeans. His crew found the bird song so melodious, and the trees so beautiful and sweet smelling, that they imagined themselves in a terrestrial paradise. His voyages brought him in to contact with thousands of naked natives, who met with Amerigo's crew with anything from a warm and curious welcome to vicious warfare. He described some of the natives as being lascivious beyond measure, especially the women, and that the men took as many wives as they pleased, often marrying their mothers or their sisters. Amerigo wrote that the natives had neither laws nor religion. Many of them were cannibals, some of whom smoked the meat of their victims before eating it. Even some of Amerigo's own men were killed by being pulled to pieces, before being eaten in view of the rest of the crew. Included are all of the first hand accounts of the four voyages, detailed in letters written by Amerigo Vespucci to his friend Pietro Soderini who was Gonfaloniere of the Republic of Florence, and to Lorenzo di Piero Francesco de Medici, who was an Italian banker and politician.

A Popular History of America, from the discovery by Columbus to the establishment of the Federal Republic of the United States, etc. [With maps.]

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Author : Elizabeth Cooper (Author of "A Popular History of America".)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Popular History of America, from the discovery by Columbus to the establishment of the Federal Republic of the United States, etc. [With maps.] written by Elizabeth Cooper (Author of "A Popular History of America".) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amerigo Vespucci

Author : 50minutes,
Publisher : 50Minutes.com
ISBN 13 : 2806289564
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Amerigo Vespucci written by 50minutes, and published by 50Minutes.com. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Amerigo Vespucci in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and expeditions of Amerigo Vespucci. The 15th and 16th centuries were a key period for European naval exploration. While he was not the first man to set foot on American soil, the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci was the first to realise that the landmass was a new continent, and made major contributions to navigation and cartography during the period. In just 50 minutes you will: • Understand the social, political and economic context of Vespucci’s expeditions, in particular with regard to the colonial ambitions of Spain and Portugal • Learn about Vespucci’s four expeditions to the New World and the discoveries he made • Discover the major impact Vespucci had on Europeans’ understanding of the geography of the world ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | History & Culture 50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery.

How Florence Invented America

Author : Giancarlo Masini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book How Florence Invented America written by Giancarlo Masini and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Florentines-Amerigo Vespucci, Giovanni da Verazzano, and Filippo Mazzei-made indispensable contributions to America's "discovery" and to the democratic ideals upon which the republic was founded. Vespucci and Verrazano, two representatives of the Renaissance, supplied the geographic conceptualization and detailed surveys of the new continent. Filippo Mazzei, a key figure of the Enlightenment, had an extensive correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, which was crucial to him in his formalization of the concept of constitutional democracy. As Giancarlo Masini and Iacopo Gori show these three sons of Florence demonstrate a unique link between Italian culture and the destiny of the United States.

Amerigo and America?

Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Amerigo and America? written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere

Author : Amerigo Vespucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere written by Amerigo Vespucci and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amerigo Vespucci: the Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution

Author : P. D. Omodeo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788869694035
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Amerigo Vespucci: the Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution written by P. D. Omodeo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America from Amerigo Vespucci to the Louisiana Purchase

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ISBN 13 : 9780875980607
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Who Was Amerigo Vespucci? | He Who Named America | Biography 3rd Grade | Children's Biographies

Author : Dissected Lives
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541952553
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Who Was Amerigo Vespucci? | He Who Named America | Biography 3rd Grade | Children's Biographies written by Dissected Lives and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbus did not name the Americas. It was Amerigo Vespucci who did it. This educational book features Amerigo Vespucci as the Italian trader and explorer who first sailed to the New World in 1499. His voyages confirmed that what Columbus found was not India, but it was indeed America. Your child will surely find Amerigo Vespucci’s story inspiring. Grab a copy today.

The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America in the Year 1492

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
ISBN 13 : 9781891396915
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 written by Christopher Columbus and published by Martino Fine Books. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Reprint of the 1920 Edition. Illustrated by Cosgrove. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is the actual log of Christopher Columbus as copied out by his companion, Bartholomew Las Casas. Besides being authentic source material about the voyage and the core of the Columbus legend, this journal has all the day-by-day enchantment of a long sea voyage with all the drama of a small ship steering into the unknown-the first pelican, a crab in the seaweed, a branch of roseberries and a carved log found floating in the water, mutterings of mutiny and the constant watch for signs of land. John Cosgrove, the illustrator, adds to the book on every page with pictures of whales and riggings, compasses and charts, which are both decorative and accurate pictorial footnotes to the log.