Biography of America

The biography of America Vespucci - the young years of America Vespucci was born on March 9 of the year according to the most common version; The exact date of birth is unknown in Florence. His father, Nakadjo Vespucci, was the state notary of the Florentine Republic. One of the brothers of America, Antonio, later became a scientist at the University of Pisa; Another brother, Jeronimo, was a merchant in Syria.

The primary education of America received from his uncle, the Dominican monk, who served in the San Marko Cathedral, Georo Antonio Vespucci; Under his leadership, America brilliantly studied Latin, physics, geography and ship astronomy. In the x years, America Vespucci studied at the University of Pisa. Since the years, he worked as a secretary for another father’s brother - Guido Antonio Vespucci, Ambassador of Florence in Paris, and then served as an agent of the banker house of the Medici in Florence.

Vespucci was an excellent financier who perfectly owned the system of Luke Pacholi. In the year of America Vespucci, taking Giovanni's nephew with him, he goes to Seville, where he enters the service of the Medici House Junetto Juanoto Burardi. Among the most important areas of Burardi's activity were the preparation of marine expeditions and their supply; It was Burardi's house that carried out financial support for the second expedition of Columbus through the Atlantic Ocean.

At the beginning of X, Vespucci acquaintance with Admiral Christopher Columbus. Columbus letters to his son, in which he gives a very high appreciation to Signor Vespucci, recommending him as an honest, reliable person. Since that time, the biography of America Vespucci, businessman and merchant, ends - the biography of the great traveler and navigator begins. The science that his uncle taught in the early youth of America, the matured Florence begins to use in a new quality.

In the year of America Vespucci, he switched to Spanish naval service and began to study the device of ships and navigation. After the death of Juanoto, Berardi Vespucci takes the duties of his trading house related to marine expeditions. In January, he concludes a contract for supplying a trading expedition from the Spanish Andalusia to India; This voyage went down in history called the third expedition of Columbus.

Having evaluated how successful and profitable there may be a trip to unknown lands, America finally stops trade and begins to master the profession of the discoverer. The biography of America Vespucci - Mature years in the year of America Vespucci take part in the Alonso Okhoda expedition as a navigator of one of the three vessels of the flotilla. Vespucci spent considerable own expense on the equipment of the ships of the flotilla ships.

In the summer, the expedition approached the northern coast of South America; Vespucci headed southeast. In August of the same year, America Vespucci and Okhoda examined the southern coast of the mainland they discovered, as a result of which more than kilometers of the southern coast of the mainland with the Paragular and Guahir peninsula, the bays of Truste and Venezuela, the lagoon of Marakaybo and several islands, including Curasao, were discovered.

In the year, the expedition returned to Spain. Over the next four years, at the invitation of the King of Portugal, Manuel I Vespucci served as an astronomer and navigator, as well as the historiographer of two more expeditions, the most important of which was the second, which was held in years under the leadership of the Coelho Gonsaly. During this expedition, for the first time in history, a detachment of Europeans of the Spaniards from the caravel of Vespucci rose to the Brazilian Highlands and penetrated the country into kilometers.

On the maps compiled in years, the coastal lines of the new - still nameless - continent are first shown. The detail for the biography of Americo Vespucci is interesting: it is he who owns the name of Rio de Janeiro “January coast”-this name was received by the bay, which he discovered during the second expedition on January 1 of the year. Soon after the return of Vespucci from swimming, he wrote several letters, one of which is called the “New World” “New Light”.

In addition to a detailed description of the territories that he discovered, in a letter Vespucci claims that these lands have nothing to do with Asia, since they extend much further south; At the same time, the newly open territories are populated. These ideas became revolutionary for the geographers of the beginning of the 16th century; The letter "New World" was translated into Latin, French and German.

This geographical name is first found on the APPANA map in the year and has been present on all geographical atlases since that time; In the year in the famous atlas of Mercator, it applies to North America. Vespucci himself did not take any participation in the assignment of his name to the mainland; Being an exceptionally honest and modest person, he even in letters about a new light was silent about his role in the discovery of the mainland.

Far from embellishing his own biography, America Vespucci, obviously, would give the palm of the championship to Columbus if fate had not ordered otherwise.In the year, on the recommendation of Christopher Columbus, America Vespucci, he again enters the service of the Castilian king Ferdinand II Aragon and accepts Castilian citizenship.

In the year, he was appointed the main helmsman of Spain and remained in this position until the end of his days. Again, as many years ago, he took part in the equipment of expeditions, not ceasing to dream of a new journey into the New World. According to Vespucci, the southern tip of the mainland, today known as South America, must have a passage that the navigator was about to open. But these plans were not destined to come true.