Amerigo
Découverte et exploration espagnoles
Spanish Discovery and exploration
Name
Portuguese
Italian
Names
15.70 history of Europe
America, discovery and exploration
Exploration
Discoveries in geography
Spanish
Explorers
Discovery and exploration
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nonfiction
Biography
History
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 Fernandez-Armesto answ…
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