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Although born in Italy, Vespucci became a naturalized citizen of Spain in 1505. Vespucci and his parents, Ser Nastagio and Lisabetta Mini, were friends of the wealthy and tempestuous Medici family, who ruled Italy from the 1400s to 1737. Vespucci’s father worked as a notary in Florence.
After being educated by his uncle, Vespucci himself worked for the Medicis as a banker and later supervisor of their ship-outfitting business, which operated in Seville, Spain. He moved to Spain in 1492.
Died: February 22, 1512. Seville, Spain. Italian navigator. A Florentine navigator and pilot major of Castile, Spain, Amerigo Vespucci, for whom America is named, played a major part in exploring the New World.
The Vespuccis were a respected family who were Florence natives for over two centuries. Most people connected their name to Italian nobility. But that does not mean that they were a rich aristocratic family. Instead, they were relatively poor, and often engaged in trading and other mercantile ventures.
As the man was finding new lands and coasts, he wrote down his impressions in detail and had the letters sent to Lorenzo de’ Medici and his godfather, Piero Soderini. Amerigo’s manuscripts proved to be immensely popular; they were republished almost 60 times while Columbus’s notes had only 12 reissues.
Printed in 1504 or 1505, it claimed to be an account of four voyages to the Americas made by Vespucci between 1497 and 1504. A Latin translation was published by the German Martin Waldseemüller in 1507 in Cosmographiae Introductio, a book on cosmography and geography, as Quattuor Americi Vespucij navigationes (Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci).