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AMERIGO VESPUCCI – Discover the Man Behind the Legend - Biography Letters Narratives Personal Accounts & Historical Documents (Including Letters to Lorenzo Di Medici Seigneury of Venice Pietro Soderini Columbus Records of Bartolomé de las Casas…) - cover

AMERIGO VESPUCCI – Discover the Man Behind the Legend - Biography Letters Narratives Personal Accounts & Historical Documents (Including Letters to Lorenzo Di Medici Seigneury of Venice Pietro Soderini Columbus Records of Bartolomé de las Casas…)

Amerigo Vespucci, Bartolomé las de Casas, Christopher Columbus

Traduttore Clements R. Markham

Casa editrice: Madison & Adams Press

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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Europeans. Colloquially named the New World, this second super continent came to be known as "Americas", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin transcription of Vespucci's first name. Learn more about the man who gave his name to the new continent, read his personal letters, diaries and what his contemporaries wrote about him.
Table of Contents: 
Biography of Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick A. Ober
Life of Vespucci by Clements R. Markham
Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to a "Magnificent Lord"
Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo Pietro F. di Medici    
Evidence of Alonso de Hojeda respecting his Voyage of 1499
Account of the Voyage of Hojeda, 1499-1500, by Navarrete  
Letter of the Admiral Christopher Columbus to his Son    
Letter of Vianelo to the Seigneury of Venice    
Letter of Naturalization in Favour of Vespucci    
Appointment of Amerigo Vespucci as Chief Pilot    
Chapters from Las Casas, which discuss the Statements of Vespucci:    
Evidence respecting the Voyage of Pinzon and Solis    
Las Casas on the Voyage of Pinzon and Solis
Disponibile da: 02/05/2017.
Lunghezza di stampa: 280 pagine.

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