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Amerigo Vespucci

Personal information
Statue outside the Uffizi, Florence.
Birth date	March 9, 1454
Place of birth	Florence, Republic of Florence, in present-day Italy
Date of death	February 22, 1512(age 57)
Death place	Seville, Crown of Castile, in present-day Spain
Nationality	Italian, Florentine
Other names	Américo Vespucio [es] Americus Vespucius [la] Alberigo Vespucci
Occupation	Merchant, Explorer, Cartographer
Known for	Demonstrating that the New World was not Asia but a previously-unknown fourth continent.

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Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.

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