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Amerigo Vespucci Essay title: Amerigo Vespucci AMERIGO VESPUCCI (or VESPUCIO) (ves-puteh-ee), Italian navigator, born in Florence, Italy, 9 March, 1451; died in Seville, Spain, 22 Feb., 1512. He was of a wealthy family of merchants, and received his education from his uncle, Giorgi Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican friar, a friend and colleague of Savonarola. He.