Ebook {Epub PDF} Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto brings this adventurous period in world history to life with vivid descriptions of the people and events that shaped North America. Praise for Amerigo: "Amerigo Vespucci got his name put on a couple of continents based on letters he may never have written. On the other hand, he really was a pimp, flimflam man, diplomat, and business agent for the Medici." --Top 10 Biographies (US /5(33).  · “An outstanding historian of Atlantic exploration, Fernández-Armesto delves into the oddities of cultural transmission that attached the name America to the continents discovered in 3/5(7). In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a rogue and raconteur who counted Christopher Columbus among his friends and rivals; an amateur sorcerer who attained fame and honor through a series of disastrous /5(35).

In , European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine www.doorway.ru Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question "What's in a name?" by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of. Fernández-Armesto, Felipe (). Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America. New York: Random House. Formisano, Luciano (). Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America. New York: Marsilio. ISBN Lester, Toby (). The Fourth Part of the World. New York: Free Press. ISBN "Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to America, was a pimp in his youth and a magus in his maturity," writes Felipe Fernández-Armesto. His subject is reminiscent of Melville's confidence man, a figure of protean energy and inventiveness, a Florentine operator constantly on the make and adept at the makeover.

Thanks to the ephemerality of Amerigo Vespucci’s reputation as an explorer, America was given an enduring name. “An outstanding historian of Atlantic exploration, Fernández-Armesto delves into the oddities of cultural transmission that attached the name America to the continents discovered in the s. Most know that it honors Amerigo Vespucci, whom the author introduces as an amazing Renaissance character independent of his name’s fame–and does Fernández-Armesto ever deliver.”. Most know that it honors Amerigo Vespucci, whom the author introduces as an amazing Renaissance character independent of his name's fame—and does Fernández-Armesto ever deliver. Pimp, flimflam man, diplomat, business agent, and inventive writer, Vespucci's many guises spring from his record of failing at one thing and moving on to the next.