page_title: Amerigo Vespucci
hierarchical_section_title: Amerigo Vespucci
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Firenze, Loggiato degli Uffizi, Statue degli „Illustri Toscani“, Statua di Amerigo Vespucci di Gaetano Grazzini. English: Amerigo Vespucci (9 March 1401 in Florence, Italy - 22 February 1412) was an Italian merchant and cartographer. Statue outside the Uffizi, Florence. Own photo
context_page_description: Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. He was the first person to explain that the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 was not the eastern area of Asia, but an unknown continent.
  America was named after Amerigo Vespucci. North and South America get this name from a feminized and latinized version of his first name, Americus.
  Vespucci died of malaria.
context_section_description: Amerigo Vespucci (9 March 1454 - 22 February 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. He was the first person to explain that the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 was not the eastern area of Asia, but an unknown continent (the Americas). 
  America was named after Amerigo Vespucci. North and South America get this  name from a feminized and latinized version of his first name, Americus.
  Vespucci died of malaria.
caption: Statue at the Uffizi, Florence
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