Amerigo Vespucci
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, an Italian explorer was born in Florence, Italy in the
year of 1454. Florence was a good city to grow up in for young Amerigo, because
of the growing interest in the field of exploration. Some of the adults told
young Amerigo about the wonders and riches of the Indies. Like the other Italian
boys ....
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.... was
Lorenzo de' Medicior, who was also know as Lorenzo the Magnificant.
When Amerigo was older, but still a young man, his father Antastagio
Vespucci sent him to the Monestary of San Marco to study with his uncle Giorgio.
In his new school, Amerigo along with the other European boys learned Latin,
math, grammar, history, Italian and Greek Literature, geography and astronomy.
Amerigo learned to love astronomy, because he was fascinated about all of the
shapes the stars made, that his uncle ca ....
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