Amerigo Vespucci Research Paper

Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454, in Florence, Italy. His parents’ names where Lisabetta Mini Vespucci, and Nastagio Vespucci. He had three brothers. Two older than him and one younger. His family was friends with a wealthy Medici family. He worked with the merchants who supplied Christopher Columbus’ voyages. There is a letter that he might have written that indicated that he sailed through the west Indies and central America. It also said that he “discovered” Venezuela before Christopher Columbus did. If this is true then it means that Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover the new world. It would be Vespucci. The letters that he wrote were sent to the Medici’s, but some people believe it to be fake.

May 10, 1497, he embarked on his first voyage. The letters indicated that Vespucci explored through the West Indies, seeing Lo Islands, then have main landed somewhere in central America. If this is true than it would have predated when Columbus discovered Venezuela. On his way back to Spain his men discovered an island. It was found by some as Bermuda, but they were not a lot of people there in 1522. He had continued his expedition in 1498. In 1499 (Second voyage) they
King Manuel I had paid for Vespucci’s third voyage. He had not taken command, but later on he was requested to be the commander from the Portuguese officer. After words he sailed through the coast of south America from Cape Sao Roque to get to Patagonia on this expedition. He also discovered Guanabara Bay (Rio de Janeiro) and Rio de la Plata. Rio de la Plata was later called Rio Jordan. His expedition led him back to Sierra Leone and the Azores. Then Vespucci, through a letter to Florence, called New World. He sailed again for Portugal to Brazil, but he didn't really discover anything. His whole group broke up and the commander’s ship disappeared. He continued by passing a little through Bahia before going back to Lisbon, Portugal in