Vespucci, Amerigo

Despite these discoveries and the growing scholarship in ancient tobacco use throughout the world, the most clearly documented use of tobacco before European exploration of the Western Hemisphere comes from South and Central America. Amerigo Vespucci recorded Indians on the Island of Margarita chewing the green... 

Generic companies The Amerigo Vespuccis of drug development they profit... 

The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci AND Other Documents illustrative of HIS Career... 

Amerigo Vespucci son caractere ses Serifs (mSme les moins authentiques sa otV, et ses navigations. Par F. A. de Vamhagen, Ministre du Brazil en Perou. (Lima, 1865.)... 

Amerigo Vespucci embraced a mercantile life at Florence, and was eventually taken into the great commercial house of the Medici, the head of which was Lorenzo Piero Francesco di Medici, who succeeded his father, Lorenzo the Magnificent, in 1492. The house had transactions in Spain, and required experienced agents at Cadiz. Amerigo, who was then over forty years of age, and Donato Niccolini were selected for this duty, and took up their residence at Cadiz and Seville in 1492. In December 1495, an Italian merchant, named Juanoto Berardi, died at Seville, and Vespucci was employed to wind up his affairs. This Berardi had contracted, on April 9th, 1495, to supply the Government with twelve vessels of 900 tons each for the Indies. He handed over the first four in the same... 

This is all that is known of the life of Amerigo Vespucci, beyond what is contained in his own letters, which we will now proceed to consider in detail. 

Letter on his Third Voyage from Amerigo VESPUCCI to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici. 

Letter from the Admiral CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS to his Son, referring to Amerigo Vespucci. ... 

The Society s volumes for the present year are The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, translated and edited by the President and Danish Arctic Voyages, comprising the expeditions of Munk and Hall, edited by Mr. Miller Christy and Mr. C. A. Gosch. Of these, the former was issued in July 1894 the latter is still in the press. 

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