Amerigo Vespucci
This work intends to study the letters of Amerigo Vespucci inserting them into the life and the various family and political relationships that the Florentine has. In the third family letter, the discovery of a fourth continent is an established fact, without any particular precedent being invoked a...
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Instituto de Literaturas Modernas
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/literaturasmodernas/article/view/7095 |
| Sumario: | This work intends to study the letters of Amerigo Vespucci inserting them into the life and the various family and political relationships that the Florentine has. In the third family letter, the discovery of a fourth continent is an established fact, without any particular precedent being invoked against Columbus; the same consciousness permeates the Mundus novus, while in the Letter to Piero Soderini Vespucci’s supremacy would be limited to the fact that he landed in present-day Venezuela a year before Columbus, who for his part continued to believe until the end (or at least pretending to believe) that he had reached an appendage of Asia: a belief shared by the first family charter and which only disappeared with the Portuguese voyage of 1501-02. However, it was not the Mundus novus, but the Letter to Piero Soderini that provided the scientific update of Saint-Dié’s Cosmographiae Introductio, in which the name of America was baptized. |
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