State: Italy

Field of activity: Traveler

Greatest Achievement: He opened the way from Europe to America, after which the latter was named

Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1451 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian navigator. America was named after him. Vespucci played an extremely important role in the study of the New World.

early years

Nastagio Vespucci - Amerigo's father, was a scientist. Amerigo was trained by his uncle Giorgio Antonio. The Vespucci family was cultured, well educated and well mannered, and kept in touch with the ruling dynasty of Italy from 1400-1737. Domenico Ghirlandaio painted a portrait of Amerigo when the young man was only nineteen years old. Vespucci made his journey to the shores of America at the age of forty, respectively, modern researchers can only have an approximate idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe appearance of the navigator at this age.

It is known that Amerigo Vespucci visited France in his uncle's dig when he was about 24 years old. Amerigo's father wanted his son to trade in Florence and Seville. Later in Seville, Amerigo partnered with his Florentine friend Gianetto Berardi. The partnership grew into a friendship that lasted until Berardi's death in 1495.

Meanwhile, Christopher Columbus made two expeditions to the West Indies. He returned from his second voyage in June 1496. At this time, he met Vespucci. Amerigo expressed doubt that he had reached the edge of Asia. Vespucci was on fire with the idea of ​​exploring new lands, despite the fact that he was no longer so young.

Maiden voyage

Information about the first voyage of Amerigo Vespucci was obtained from the text of the letter, the authenticity of which is questioned by scientists. The reason for this is the fact that the dates indicated in the letter do not correspond to key points in historical events, and also that the described journey is very different from geography. However, from the text of the letter it follows that Vespucci sailed from Cadiz (Spain) on May 10, 1497.

According to the letter, the flotilla passed through the West Indies and after 37 days reached the mainland somewhere in the region of Central America. If the letter is considered authentic, then this landing preceded the discovery of America by Columbus. Returning to Spain, the Vespucci team discovered Bermuda, which at that time were uninhabited. The expedition returned to Cadiz in October 1498.

In all likelihood, Vespucci really tried to find America, and sailed from Cadiz at the indicated time. However, the lack of an experienced crew and proper knowledge of the management of the ship led to the fact that his voyage was not successful. This could explain all the inaccuracies and errors present in the ill-fated letter.

In 1499, Vespucci again equipped an expedition. This time, this fact has a lot of evidence, in addition to Amerigo's own letters. Undoubtedly, Vespucci learned a lot during his first voyage. Having sailed from Cadiz, his flotilla headed for Cape Verde, and then separated in the Atlantic. Vespucci made his way to Cape Santo Agostinho, which is located near Brazil, after which he headed west, crossing the Gulf of Maracaibo. He may have been the first person to reach Brazil and cross the Equator in the waters of the New World. During this voyage, Vespucci discovered the mouth of the Amazon.

Amerigo Vespucci Finds America

Two years later, Amerigo set out on his most significant voyage. This time on behalf of King Manuel I (1462-1521). Amerigo was on his way to Brazil. Having reached the Brazilian coast, Vespucci took command of the research expedition.

Thanks to this journey, Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata were discovered. The explorers returned home via Sierra Leone and the Azores, and Vespucci, in his letter, called South America the New World.

In 1503, Amerigo again went to Brazil, but this expedition was unable to make new significant discoveries. The flotilla broke up, the Portuguese ship disappeared, and Vespucci returned to Lisbon via Bailly in 1504. He never went to sea again.

In 1507, a group of scientists from Lorraine published the book Cosmographic Introductions. One of its authors, Martin Waldseemüller, suggested that the New World be called America, in honor of the famous discoverer Amerigo Vespucci. After some debate, the new name was adopted.

In the last years of his life, Amerigo served as a major. He trained captains and taught them navigation in the New World region. This he did until his death. Amerigo Vespucci died on February 22, 1512, a month before his fiftieth birthday.

Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), navigator. Florentine by origin. He was in the service of the Spanish and then the Portuguese governments. During the voyages of 1499-1504 he visited the northern part of South America and called it the New World. By the name of Amerigo Vespucci, the new continent was named America, although it was discovered by Columbus in 1492.

At first he was a financier

His name has been on all maps of the world for many centuries.

As to whether Vespucci is worthy of the fact that the New World is named after him, historians argue to this day.

The future navigator was the third son in the family of the public notary of the Republic of Florence Anastasio (Nastagio) Vespucci. He was born on March 9, 1454 - in this matter, the good old encyclopedic dictionary, it seems, is still mistaken. Amerigo received an excellent upbringing and education from his learned uncle Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican friar of St. Mark's, who taught him Latin, and showed great success in physics, nautical astronomy and geography. All this allowed Amerigo Vespucci to enter the University of Pisa in 1470.

Amerigo's older brother, Antonio, became a scientist at the University of Pisa. The middle one - Geronimo - became a merchant in Syria. Amerigo also went along the trade and financial lines. After graduating from the university, he moved to Paris and entered the office of his uncle Guido, where he worked as a secretary until 1480. Then, perfectly mastering Luca Pacioli's system perfect for those times, Amerigo returned to Florence and entered the service of the Medici banking house. In 1490, he went to Spanish Seville, where he entered the service of the rich trading house of the Florentine Danoto Berardi. Since this house supplied Christopher Columbus with money for his second voyage in 1493, it can be assumed that Amerigo Vespucci knew the Spanish admiral at least from that time. In 1497-1498, Vespucci collaborated with Columbus in the preparation of his third expedition. Shortly before his death, Columbus recommended him to his son as an honest and reliable person.

Swimming Vespucci

Monument to the great navigator in Florence

A specialist in historical geography J. Baker writes about Vespucci: “Some consider him an outstanding researcher, others consider him a solid butcher by profession and a nonentity in all other respects. According to Vespucci himself, he made four journeys - in 1497, 1499, 1501 and 1503. The latest and generally more reasonable analysis of this question leads to the conclusion that the first and fourth journeys are fictitious. The result of this imaginary first ... journey was the discovery of the Mexican coast near the Gulf of Campeche, as well as the eastern coast of North America.

The Russian writer Rudolf Konstantinovich Balandin confidently believes that Vespucci was by no means a nonentity in everything except trade. He was considered an experienced helmsman and cartographer, he knew navigation; in the last years of his life, after a second move to Spain, he served as the chief pilot of Castile - he checked the knowledge of ship helmsmen, supervised the compilation of maps, and compiled secret reports to the government on new geographical discoveries. At the same time, the question whether Amerigo visited the "South Continent", as South America was originally called, in 1497, before Columbus, remains open. After all, this fact is not confirmed by any documents. But at the same time, Vespucci did not at all claim the laurels of the discoverer and did not try to assert his priority.

It can be said quite reliably that in 1499 Amerigo Vespucci sailed under the leadership of Admiral Alonso de Ojeda. In May, the expedition, in which Vespucci served as skipper, sailed from El Puerto de Santa Maria and headed for the shores of Suriname. The route was marked on the map received from Columbus. The purpose of the expedition was a detailed survey of the coastline. Then Vespucci first set foot on the land of today's America. In the campaigns of 1501 and 1503, already in the Portuguese service, Amerigo Vespucci occupied, rather, the position of a cartographer and navigator, although he commanded one of the small ships. As part of his second real expedition, led by Admiral Gonzalo Coelho, Vespucci climbed the Brazilian Highlands and went 250 miles deep into the continent. It was this raid that gave the Italian the conviction that a new continent had been discovered. On the same expedition, Vespucci named the bay of Rio de Janeiro, which was discovered on January 1, 1502.

A new look like a discovery

First meeting with mainlanders

In the time of Vespucci, messages about new lands and peoples were in great demand in Europe. People well understood the greatness of the deeds being accomplished, their great significance for the future. Printing houses promptly printed messages about travels to the west. Already six months after the return of Christopher Columbus from his first expedition to the shores of America, the monk Pietro Angiera called him "the discoverer of the New World." Two years later, in his next work, he repeated the expression "New World". However, so far it was only a brilliant prediction. It was Amerigo Vespucci who was destined to give scientific arguments to prove that a new part of the world had been discovered.

The first such publication of his in 1503 appeared in Italy and France. It was a small pamphlet called Mundus Novus (The New World). In the preface it was said that it was translated from Italian into Latin, "so that all educated people know how many wonderful discoveries have been made these days, how many unknown worlds have been discovered and how rich they are." The booklet was a great success. It was written vividly, interestingly, truthfully. In it, in the form of a letter from Alberico Vespuzzio, it was reported that in the summer of 1501, on behalf of the Portuguese king, a voyage across the stormy Atlantic to the shores of an unknown land was reported. She was called with all conviction not Asia, but the New World.

Later, a collection appeared, including stories by various authors about the voyages of Columbus, Vasco da Gama and some other travelers. The compiler of the collection came up with a catchy title that intrigues readers: "The New World and New Countries Discovered by Alberico Vespuzzio of Florence." Thousands of readers of the book could decide that it was Amerigo (Alberico) who discovered both the New World and new countries, although this did not follow from the text at all. But the title is remembered better than any paragraphs or chapters of the book. In addition, the descriptions written by Amerigo were vivid and convincing, which undoubtedly strengthened his authority as a discoverer.

The navigator wrote that the areas discovered by him on behalf of the Portuguese king can be safely called the New World - and justified his opinion: “None of our ancestors had the slightest idea about the countries that we saw, and about what is in them ; our knowledge far surpassed that of our ancestors. Most of them believed that there was no mainland south of the equator, but only the boundless ocean, which they called the Atlantic; and even those who considered it possible to have a mainland here, for various reasons, were of the opinion that it could not be inhabited. Now my voyage has proved that such a view is wrong and sharply contrary to reality, for south of the equator I found the mainland, where some valleys are much more densely populated by people and animals than in our Europe, Asia and Africa; moreover, there is a more pleasant and mild climate than in other parts of the world familiar to us.

According to the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig: “These stingy, but full of confidence lines make Mundus Novus a memorable document of mankind ... Columbus, until his death, was blindly sure that, having landed on the islands of Guanahani and Cuba, he set foot on the land of India, and this by delusion he essentially narrowed the universe for his contemporaries; and only Vespucci, refuting the assumption that the new continent is India, and asserting with confidence that this is a new world, gives other scales of the universe that are valid to this day.

The Lorraine cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, in his book published in 1507, first proposed naming the new continent America (Amerigo's country) after Vespucci. Published in Germany under the title "On the Antarctic belt" "New World ..." Vespucci was supplied with a map of the new continent, still with very fantastic contours and the inscription "America". The sonorous new word began to be applied willingly to other cards as well. The opinion about Amerigo as the discoverer of the New World spontaneously spread, and among specialists the image of a rogue who appropriated his name to the whole continent began to spread. But he hardly was. Until his death, which followed on February 22, 1512 in Seville, Vespucci never claimed the laurels of Columbus, whose sons also did not make any claims against him.

Amerigo Vespucci- the famous Italian traveler, one of the first explorers of America, after whom the whole continent was named. The date of birth of the famous Italian is considered to be March 9, 1454, the birthplace is Florence. His father Anastasio Vespucci was a notary, and thanks to his uncle from the monastery of San Marco Amerigo, he received a good education. He achieved particular success in the study of physics, geography, nautical astronomy and Latin. In 1470, he entered the University of Pisa, after which he made a successful career as a financier, working first in his uncle's office in Paris, and later in the Medici banking house in Florence. In 1490, he moved to Seville, where he served in the trading house of the wealthy Florentine Berardi, who was engaged in equipping and supplying sea expeditions. Here Amerigo meets Columbus, he concludes contracts for the equipment of ships for the second and third expeditions of Columbus to the New World. The great traveler appreciated the honesty and business qualities of Amerigo and in his letters to his son recommends him as a reliable and intelligent person.

After the death of Berardi, Amerigo is in charge of all the reporting of the trading house, he is closely engaged in equipping the third expedition of the greatest traveler Columbus. The successful voyages of Columbus lead Amerigo to the idea of ​​trying his hand at a new maritime business.

In May 1499, Amerigo Vespucci takes part for the first time in naval expedition led by Admiral Alonzo de Ojeda. The expedition headed to the coast of Suriname in order to study in detail the coastline of the new continent. After a 24-day voyage, Amerigo first came to the New World. In the Gulf of Maracay, travelers came across a settlement on stilts, which reminded them of Venice, this coast was called Venezuela by them. Passing along the coast of Paria, the expedition visited the West Indies and in the summer of 1500 returned to Cadiz.

At the invitation of the King of Portugal, Vespucci makes two more trips to the shores of the new mainland, the first of which took place from May 1501 to September 1502. Exploring the coast of Brazil, on January 1, 1502, he discovered a bay, which he named Rio de Janeiro. The second expedition under the command of Admiral Gonzalo Coelha was made from May 1503 to June 1504. In these travels, Amerigo proved himself to be an excellent navigator and cartographer. During the second journey, he explored the Brazilian Highlands and advanced inland to a distance of 250 miles.

Amerigo was one of the first to surmise that the lands which he visited are part of a new continent and not part of Asia as Columbus assumed. On the recommendation of Columbus in 1505, Amerigo enters the service of the king of Spain, in March 1508 he receives the position of chief helmsman for trips that are organized to India. Vespucci is actively involved in outfitting expeditions, although he passionately dreams of a new journey to the southern extremities of the new mainland. In 1507, the brochure "The Four Voyages of Amerigo" appeared, in which the author proposes that the lands explored by Amerigo be named after him. At first, only South America was named this way, and much later, the entire continent was named America. Unfortunately, the plans of the great Florentine were not destined to come true, in February 1512 he died.

But then why was it named after Amerigo Vespucci? A brief biography of this famous navigator and explorer will help us to clarify the essence of the matter. And although Columbus was the first to visit the American continent, it was Vespucci who announced to the whole world that the newly discovered lands were the mainland.

Origin

Amerigo Vespucci's birthplace is Florence, where he was born on March 9, 1454. His father, who worked as a notary, made sure that his son received a proper education. Little Amerigo studied at home and mostly comprehended the humanities. Also under the guidance of his uncle, he studied Latin, geography and nautical astronomy. In his youth he entered the University of Pisa, and from 1478 he began to work. whose brief biography by no means consists of voyages and discoveries alone, at first he acted as secretary to another of his uncles, who served as ambassador of Florence in Paris. Later, the famous navigator worked for a long time in the financial sector.

In 1490 he moved to Spain and continued to work. Here he is preparing sea expeditions, simultaneously studying everything related to ships, and also mastering navigation. In 1492 he transferred to the naval service directly in Spain. Over the next few years, he continues to prepare, but this time he equips the expeditions of Christopher Columbus himself, with whom, by the way, they were friends.

First expedition (1499-1500)

In 1499, Amerigo Vespucci himself joined the expedition of the navigator Alonso Ojeda to the South Atlantic. What he discovered during this journey, read about it below. Vespucci personally finances the equipment of two ships, which he will later command, and sets sail as a navigator. In the summer of the same year, an expedition consisting of three ships approached the northern coast of South America, after which Amerigo Vespucci sent his ships in a southeasterly direction. On July 2, he managed to discover the Amazon Delta. The explorer penetrated 100 km deep into the mainland using boats, and then returned and continued sailing to the southeast.

Then Amerigo Vespucci explored about 1200 km of the northern coast of the continent, after which he sent his ships in the opposite direction and by August overtook the ship of Alons Ojeda at about the 66th meridian of western longitude. Together, the sailors continued to follow in a westerly direction and mapped more than one and a half thousand kilometers of the coast of South America. They also discovered several peninsulas, islands, bays and lagoons. In autumn, Vespucci and Ojeda separated again, after which the first continued to explore the coast of the mainland, sailing 300 km in a south-westerly direction. He returned to Europe in June 1500.

Second expedition (1501-1502)

In 1501, the navigator Amerigo Vespucci was invited to serve as an astronomer, navigator, and also a historiographer. In the same year, another expedition was organized, led by Goncalo Coelho. The three ships left Europe in mid-August and headed for the east coast of South America.

Further, the sailors continued to follow south, repeating the route of the Spaniard Bortolome Roldan, who sailed here in 1500. On January 1, 1502, they discovered the bay of Rio de Janeiro (now Guanabara) and, intending to find out its length, sailed 2000 km along the coast, but and could not find its edge. It was decided to turn the ships back, in addition, one of the three ships of the expedition fell into disrepair, as a result of which the travelers burned it. The first ship arrived in Portugal in June of the same year, and Vespucci and Coelho, who were on the second ship, did not return until September.

Third expedition (1503-1504)

About a year later, Portugal organized a new expedition, in which Amerigo Vespucci also took part. A short biography of the navigator must contain a description of this trip. Goncalo Coelho was again appointed leader of the expedition, but this time six ships were equipped for the voyage. In August 1503, sailors discovered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean near which one ship subsequently sank, and three completely disappeared in an unknown direction. The remaining ships headed for South America and stopped in the Bay of All Saints, where, on the orders of Vespucci, a group of explorers landed on the shore, penetrating 250 km deep into the continent.

Here the travelers stayed for five whole months. In this place they built a fleet, after which, leaving 24 sailors on the mainland, the expedition set off on the return journey. Also, a batch of logs made of valuable sandalwood, found on newly discovered lands, was loaded onto the ship. In June 1504, the sailors returned to Spain. This was the end of Amerigo Vespucci's travels.

How and why America was named after Amerigo Vespucci

He explored a sufficiently large length of the coast of South America to suggest that this land is precisely the continent. In a sense, it was Amerigo Vespucci who discovered America. In a letter sent by him to Florence in 1503, he set out a detailed description of the lands he had discovered, suggesting that they most likely had nothing to do with the Asian mainland, as they rushed quite far to the south. At the same time, he reports that these territories are inhabited, and also proposes to designate the newly discovered continent as the New World.

In 1507, the cartographer Martin Waldseemüller proposed to name the newly discovered continent America - after the famous explorer Amerigo Vespucci. From that moment on, this name appears on all geographical maps and atlases. Although the navigator visited only South America, North America is also named after Amerigo Vespucci. What did he really discover? You can learn more about this from his letters and diaries, it remains only to add that he himself was not inclined to talk much about his role in the discovery of the continent and in no way contributed to naming it after himself.

The last years of the sailor's life

In 1505, Vespucci again entered the service of the king of Spain, and not without the help of Christopher Columbus. He accepts the citizenship of Castile and in 1508 is appointed chief helmsman of the kingdom. He held this position for the next few years, taking part in equipping new expeditions and dreaming of setting sail. But Amerigo Vespucci was never able to carry out his plans. A brief biography of this man ends on February 22, 1512 - on this day he died in Seville, where he lived in recent years.

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(Vespucci) (1454-1512), navigator. Florentine by origin. Member of several Spanish and Portuguese expeditions (1499-1504) to the shores of South America, which he called the New World. For the first time he suggested that these lands are a new part of the world, which the Lorraine cartographer M. Waldseemuller called (1507) by the name of Vespucci Amerigo America.

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Vespucci Amerigo (1454-1512), navigator. Florentine by origin. Member of several Spanish and Portuguese expeditions (1499-1504) to the shores of the South. America, which he called the New World. He was the first to suggest that these lands are a new part of the world, which the Lorraine cartographer M. Waldseemuller called (1507) by the name of Amerigo Vespucci America (cm. AMERICA). * * *
Vespucci Amerigo (March 9, 1454, Florence - February 22, 1512, Seville), Italian navigator, one of the discoverers of South America (cm. SOUTH AMERICA), Amazon delta (cm. AMAZON (river), Gulf of Venezuela (cm. gulf of venezuela), Maracaibo lagoons (cm. MARACAIBO (lake)) and the Brazilian Highlands; chief pilot (navigator) of Spain (1508).
First half of life
Born into the family of a notary, Vespucci received a liberal arts education at home. For a long time he served in the banking house of the Medici. In 1490 he moved to Spain, where he worked as an agent of the same company in Seville, mainly engaged in equipping ships. He thoroughly studied the structure of ships, mastered navigation and astronomy, compiled various maps. In 1492 he transferred to the Spanish naval service, took part in the equipment of the second and third expeditions of Christopher Columbus. (cm. Columbus Christopher) with whom he was friends. Until 1499, Vespucci did not sail anywhere.
Maiden voyage
In 1499-1500 he was navigator on the expedition of Alonso Ojeda (cm. Ojeda Alonso de)(on three ships), commanding two ships equipped at his own expense. In the summer of 1499, the flotilla approached the northern coast of South America at 5° or 6° north latitude, where it split up. Vespucci moved to the southeast, on July 2 he discovered the Amazon delta and its mouth branch Para, penetrated up to 100 km in boats. Then he continued sailing southeast to San Marcos Bay (44 ° W), discovered about 1200 km of the northern coastal strip of South America, discovered the Guiana Current (cm. GUIANE CURRENT). From there, Vespucci turned back and in August caught up with Alons Ojeda near 66 ° west longitude. Traveling west together, they discovered more than 1600 km of the southern coast of the mainland with the Paraguana and Guajira peninsulas. (cm. GUAJIRA), Triste and Venezuelan bays, the Maracaibo lagoon and several islands, including Curacao (cm. CURACAO). In the autumn, Vespucci again separated from Ojeda, explored the coast of South America 300 km to the southwest, and returned to Spain in June 1500.
Second voyage
In 1501-1502 Vespucci was in the Portuguese service as an astronomer, navigator and historiographer in the 1st Portuguese expedition of Gonçalo Cuelho on 3 ships. In mid-August 1501, they approached the Atlantic coast of South America at 5 ° 30 "south latitude and went up to 16 °, repeating the discoveries of the Spaniard Bortolome Roldan (1500). On January 1, 1502, the expedition discovered the bay of Rio de Janeiro (Guanabara), traced the coast 2000 km southwest (up to 25 ° S) and, making sure that the land still stretches in the same direction, turned back. One caravel arrived in Portugal at the end of June, the other with Cuella and Vespucci at the beginning of September (the third, which had fallen into disrepair, had to be burned).
Third voyage
In 1503-1504 Vespucci commanded a caravel in the 2nd expedition of Gonçalo Cuelho on six ships. In early August 1503, near Ascension Island (8 ° south latitude), they discovered, one ship sank, 3 went missing. The caravels Vespucci and Cuelho reached the bay of All Saints, discovered in the previous voyage at 13 °. The detachment that landed on the orders of Vespucci for the first time climbed a steep ledge of the Brazilian Highlands and penetrated 250 km into the interior of the country. In the harbor at 23 ° south latitude, during a 5-month stay, the Portuguese built a fort, where they left 24 sailors, and returned to Lisbon with a load of sandalwood at the end of June 1504.
The origin of the name "America" ​​and the last years of life
As a result of voyages along the northern and eastern shores of the newly discovered land, Vespucci formed a correct idea of ​​it as a southern transatlantic continent, and in 1503, in a letter to his homeland, he proposed calling the continent the New World. In 1507, the Lorraine cartographer Martin Waldseemüller attributed the discovery of the “fourth part of the world” made by Columbus to Vespucci and “christened” this continent America in honor of Amerigo Vespucci. In 1538 this already recognized name was extended on the Mercator map to North America. In 1505, after a second move to Spain, Vespucci received Castilian citizenship. In 1508 he was appointed to the newly established position of chief pilot of Spain and held it until his death.
Vespucci as a person.
According to contemporaries, he was an exceptionally honest, intelligent and observant person. Possessing remarkable literary talent, often exaggerating, Vespucci described the nature of open countries, the appearance and life of the Indians, the starry sky of the southern hemisphere, but he constantly kept silent about the heads of the expeditions and his role in them. Vespucci never claimed the laurels of Columbus, whose sons also did not make any claims against him.

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