Amerigo Vespucci Lived Here
by Gary Karlsen
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Amerigo Vespucci Lived Here
Artist
Gary Karlsen
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Photograph - Photography - Digital Photogrphy
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I took this photo in the old Tuscan city of Montefioralle, an hour or so drive by car south of Florence, Italy.
This is the Vespucci family crest. It is rather unique in that it displays a group of six wasps. Hmm ... some research beckons to learn the significance of the wasps.
The latin inscription says something like, "this is the old home of the Vespucci family". Indeed, our guide in Montefioralle told us that the house was still owned by the Vespuccis.
Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians. Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed "America", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name (Wikipedia)
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December 22nd, 2015
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