The birth of Amerigo Vespucci: March 9th, 1454.(Months Past)

History Today | March 1, 2004| | Copyright

AMERICA was named by mistake. The claim that Amerigo Vespucci discovered the mainland of the New World before Columbus has long been discredited and even the traditional date of his birth, March 9th, was apparently that of someone else of the same name, born in a different year. The American maritime historian Samuel Eliot Morison called Vespucci 'the most controversial character in the history of discovery', variously considered a bold explorer or a conceited liar. He came from a well-connected family in Florence, the son of a notary named Nastagio Vespucci, and his ...

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