- Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Amerigo Vespucci (1452-1512): Account of His First Voyage, 1497 Amerigo Vespucci (born in Florence in 1452), whose name was given to the American continents by Waldsmuller in 1507, worked in Seville (where he died) in the business house which fitted out Columbus' second expedition. Here he gives an account of the first of his own four ...www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497vespucci-america.html
- An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia ...www.newadvent.org/cathen/15384b.htm
- The Straight Dope: Why was America named after Amerigo Vespucciwww.straightdope.com/classics/a4_021.html
