Quien me puede dar una biografia corta de americo vespucio en ingles
chulocloo360 He was born on 9 March 1451 in the bosom of a wealthy family from Florence. In the year 1478 he travels to France to work with his uncle Guido Antonio Vespucci, ambassador of Lorenzo the Magnificent in the court of Louis XI. In 1482, he returned to Florence when his father died and remained until 1491 in the service of the Medici. In 1492 he travels to Spain to represent the commercial interests of the family in Seville and enters to the service of Juanoto Berardi, Florentine dedicated to the commerce of gold and slaves and supplier of the ships in the crossings to the New World. When Berardi died in 1496, he was engaged in navigation. From 1499 to 1502 he made several trips to America which he recounted in five letters addressed to different recipients. He embarked in Cadiz in 1499 in the fleet of Alonso de Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa. Following the route of the third voyage of Christopher Columbus, he crossed the north coast of South America and arrived until the Cape of the Vela (Venezuela) returning in June of 1500 to Cadiz. In the year 1501 travels to Lisbon from where it left again to the New World under Portuguese flag. After passing through Cape Verde, it arrived to Brazil at the end of the same year and bordering the coast in a southerly direction arrived at the Patagonia, near the strait that shortly after discovered Fernando de Magallanes. He realized that the lands discovered were not an extension of the Asian peninsula, but a new continent. The journey narrates in a letter that directed to Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de Medici, published in Paris in 1502 with the title of Mundus Novus. He also referred to it in the letter he addressed to Piero Soderini in 1504, with the title Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci delle isole nuovamente ritrovate in four suoi viaggi. The European cartographers, who knew his work, baptized in his honor the continent with its name: America. It is believed that between 1503 and 1504 he made his third voyage to the Indies, also in the service of Portugal. In 1504 he was received by King Ferdinand the Catholic in Toro (Zamora) who granted him Castilian citizenship. In 1508 he was designated first major pilot of the House of Hiring. Américo Vespucio passed away the 22 of February of 1512 in Seville, Spain.
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GianGD
OK,pero me podrias señalar los aspectos importantes porfa (;
Diego805
Américo Vespucio was born on March 9, 1541, in Florence (Italy). He was the son of the merchant Nastagio Vespucci and the lady Lisa di Giovanni Mini. He studied in the school of the Convent of San Marcos. From 1489 administered the banking agency of the Médici in Seville. Later it was associated to Juanoto Berardi to organize the first trip of Christopher Columbus (1492).
He was born on 9 March 1451 in the bosom of a wealthy family from Florence. In the year 1478 he travels to France to work with his uncle Guido Antonio Vespucci, ambassador of Lorenzo the Magnificent in the court of Louis XI. In 1482, he returned to Florence when his father died and remained until 1491 in the service of the Medici. In 1492 he travels to Spain to represent the commercial interests of the family in Seville and enters to the service of Juanoto Berardi, Florentine dedicated to the commerce of gold and slaves and supplier of the ships in the crossings to the New World. When Berardi died in 1496, he was engaged in navigation. From 1499 to 1502 he made several trips to America which he recounted in five letters addressed to different recipients. He embarked in Cadiz in 1499 in the fleet of Alonso de Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa. Following the route of the third voyage of Christopher Columbus, he crossed the north coast of South America and arrived until the Cape of the Vela (Venezuela) returning in June of 1500 to Cadiz. In the year 1501 travels to Lisbon from where it left again to the New World under Portuguese flag. After passing through Cape Verde, it arrived to Brazil at the end of the same year and bordering the coast in a southerly direction arrived at the Patagonia, near the strait that shortly after discovered Fernando de Magallanes. He realized that the lands discovered were not an extension of the Asian peninsula, but a new continent. The journey narrates in a letter that directed to Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de Medici, published in Paris in 1502 with the title of Mundus Novus. He also referred to it in the letter he addressed to Piero Soderini in 1504, with the title Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci delle isole nuovamente ritrovate in four suoi viaggi. The European cartographers, who knew his work, baptized in his honor the continent with its name: America. It is believed that between 1503 and 1504 he made his third voyage to the Indies, also in the service of Portugal. In 1504 he was received by King Ferdinand the Catholic in Toro (Zamora) who granted him Castilian citizenship. In 1508 he was designated first major pilot of the House of Hiring. Américo Vespucio passed away the 22 of February of 1512 in Seville, Spain.
From 1489 administered the banking agency of the Médici in Seville. Later it was associated to Juanoto Berardi to organize the first trip of Christopher Columbus (1492).