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Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America

Chronicles the life and times of Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure adventurer, salesman, sorcerer, and relentless borrower of others' experiences and achievements who gave his name to the continents of the New World.

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  • "Chronicles the life and times of Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure adventurer, salesman, sorcerer, and relentless borrower of others' experiences and achievements who gave his name to the continents of the New World."@en
  • "Chronicles the life and times of Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure adventurer, salesman, sorcerer, and relentless borrower of others' experiences and achievements who gave his name to the continents of the New World."
  • ""In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernandez-Armesto answers the question "What's in a name?" by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a rogue and raconteur who counted Christopher Columbus among his friends and rivals; an amateur sorcerer who attained fame and honor through a series of disastrous failures and equally grand self-reinventions. Filled with well-informed insights and amazing anecdotes, this magisterial and compulsively readable account sweeps readers from Medicean Florence to the Sevillian court of Ferdinand and Isabella, then across the Atlantic of Columbus to the brave New World where fortune favored the bold. Amerigo Vespucci emerges from these pages as an irresistible avatar for the age of exploration-and as a man of genuine achievement as a voyager and chronicler of discovery. And now, in Amerigo, this mercurial and elusive figure finally has a biography to do full justice to both the man and his remarkable era."--Publisher's website."@en

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  • "Biographie"
  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "biografier"

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  • "Amerigo : la vita avventurosa dell'uomo che ha dato il nome all'America"
  • "Amerigo : la vita avventurosa dell'uomo che ha dato il nome all'America"@it
  • "Amerigo"
  • "Americo"
  • "Americo : el hombre que dio su nombre a un continente"
  • "Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America"@en
  • "Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America"
  • "Américo, o homem que deu seu nome ao continente"
  • "Amerigo the man who gave his name to America"@en
  • "Amerigo the man who gave his name of America"
  • "Amerigo the Man Who Gave His Name to America"
  • "Américo el hombre que dio su nombre a un continente"
  • "Américo : el hombre que dio su nombre a un continente"
  • "Américo : El hombre que dio su nombre a un continente"@es