Quotes About Vespucci

Poliziano translated Homer. He wrote a great poem on Simonetta Vespucci, you know her?

Vespucci's Indians were most likely representatives of the vast network of Guaraní tribes.

Now, these parts of the earth [Europe, Africa, Asia] have been more extensively explored and a fourth part has been discovered by Amerigo Vespucci (as will be described in what follows). Inasmuch as both Europe and Asia received their names from women, I see no reason why any one should justly object to calling this part Amerige [from Greek "ge" meaning "land of"], i.e., the land of Amerigo, or America, after Amerigo, its discoverer, a man of great ability.