Amerigo Vespucci

Of this sort there are many heads to be seen, both of women and of men, and I have several of them, drawn by his hand with the pen, in our book of drawings, which I have mentioned so many times; such was that of Amerigo Vespucci, which is a very beautiful head of an old man drawn with charcoal, and likewise that of

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo Giorgio Vasari 1542

Around 1499, the Spanish, lead by Amerigo Vespucci and Captain Alonzo de Ojeda, explored the island looking for gold.

Dwight Brown: Aruba: The Beach Is Just the Beginning... Dwight Brown 2011

Nobody thought of the Atlantic as a separate ocean, he tells us, until the writings of Amerigo Vespucci, "the colorful Italian explorer and sorcerer and in later life ... pimp" whose book was "wildly popular - helped no doubt by Vespucci's loving discussions of the cosmetic self-mutilation, anal cleanliness and sexual practices of the people he met along the way."

Salty tales from the briny deep kEN rINGLE 2010

Glenn was due to pick up Sally first thing in the morning, just hours before a car service would whisk Georgia to JFK, final destination Amerigo Vespucci airport, Florence, Italy.

Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010

Nobody thought of the Atlantic as a separate ocean, he tells us, until the writings of Amerigo Vespucci, "the colorful Italian explorer and sorcerer and in later life ... pimp" whose book was "wildly popular - helped no doubt by Vespucci's loving discussions of the cosmetic self-mutilation, anal cleanliness and sexual practices of the people he met along the way."

Salty tales from the briny deep kEN rINGLE 2010

“The name America, for example, very probably represents not just a tip of the hat to Amerigo Vespucci but also a multilingual pun that can mean both “born new” and “no-place-land” – a playful coinage that seems to have inspired Sir Thomas More to invent his new world across the ocean, one meaning of which was also “no-place”: Utopia.”

The map that changed the world | clusterflock 2009

Jeremy please read about Amerigo Vespucci before you repeat that.

"Did Robert Gibbs really need to wake Obama at 4:30 am with news of the North Korean missile launch?" Ann Althouse 2009

This gifted group is here to guide us through our American story, using, when possible, the words of those who lived it, one of the earliest and most influential of whom was the merchant-sailor Amerigo Vespucci, who had been to the West Indies at the beginning of the sixteenth century and was eager to go back and find the vast treasure that Christopher Columbus had so far been unable to locate.

From Amerigo Vespucci to Darryl Zanuck McMurtry, Larry 2009

Before Amerigo Vespucci set out to explore the New World, he was a pickle peddler in Seville, Spain.

Friends don’t let friends keelhaul 2009

OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: London cca 1880-1900 where Professor Moriarty (that one) is Prime Minister at the court of the Calibanic Kings/Queens - it's still Queen Victoria but she is now from the "lizard race" - who were discovered/revived by Amerigo Vespucci on his return voyage from "Vespucciana" (ie America) which "today" is still a land of the indigenous people with some colonists.

"The Bookman" by Lavie Tidhar (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009