Italy, Explorer March 9, 1454 – February, 22, 1512.
Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer who was born in the Republic of Florence. He became a citizen of the Crown of Castile in 1505.
Also known as Navigator, Cartographer
The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.
Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.
I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.
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