Amerigo Vespucci belongs to the famous European explorers. He was born on March 9, 1451 in Florence, Italy.

He was born of a extremely well-to-do family, friendly and is exceptionally well mannered. Vespuccis father is Nastagio Vespucci. Their family is really powerful and important to the entire town. These were Florentine silk merchants and they have reigned over the entire Italy on the year 1940 to 1730. As part of the distinguished family, Vespucci had a good education which had been in charged by his uncle, Antonio Vespucci. Just on time when he graduated and was brave and old enough, he'd seen the first journey of Christopher Columbus. Right at that time when Vespucci made a decision that he too desired to be one of the famous explorers.

When Vespucci was at the age of twenty four, he together with his company went to see France. His father had always wished for him to engage into the business world, so Vespucci chose to become involved into business. He had his small business in a bank in Florence and then followed by a collaboration with Gianetto Berardi in Seville, Spain. Berardi which also happens to be a Florentine just such as Vespucci. However their joint venture didnt lasted quite long because Berardi died in the end of the year 1945.

After his business venture with was Berardi ended, he met and talked to Christopher Columbus on the subject of expeditions. Columbus had opened up that he had already been to the outskirts of Asia. With great shock and a little bit left with a question mark on his head that Columbus really did visited, Vespucci pushed himself to carryout a voyage and view Asia by by his own, with his own naked eye.

In the year 1949, Vespucci joined up with an expedition with Alonso de Ojeda. He had chosen to get along with him since they know that Ojeda has already been a veteran in the fields of expeditions and that he was at Columbus second journey. Their journey comprises 4 ships that were attended with outstanding cartographers and cosmographer like Juan de la Cosa, who once became a part of trips of Columbus. They'd sailed far and had journeyed mostly to the whole of South USA. They've found valuable stones like emeralds, pearl and gold. They came to a peaceful land that they named Venezuela which is from the word little Venice.

Years following the journey, Vespucci again became a member of a second expedition. He joined with the trip of King Manuel heading to Brazil. They had identified some important places like Rio de Plata and Guanabara Bay or now known as Rio de Janeiro.

America was named and had been globally acknowledged in honor of Amerigo Vespucci who had been the one who located it. It was done and recommended by Martinus Ilacomilus , one of the writer of the popular book entitled Cosmographiae introducto which means Introduction to Cosmography.

Vespucci spent the last years of his life teaching pilots. He remained as a pilot trainer until he died on February 22, 1512 in Seville, Spain. More profile of worlds most famous explorers here: http://famous-explorers.net/