List of Famous people with last name Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci

First Name Amerigo

Born on March 9, 1454

Died on February 22, 1512 (aged 57)

Born in Italy, Tuscany

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian-born merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived. He became a Castillian citizen in 1505.

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Simonetta Vespucci

Simonetta Cattaneo

First Name Simonetta

Last Name Vespucci

Died on May 5, 1476

Born in Italy, Liguria

Simonetta Vespucci, nicknamed la bella Simonetta, was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was known as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, and was allegedly the model for many paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, and other Florentine painters. Some art historians have taken issue with these attributions, which the Victorian critic John Ruskin has been blamed for promulgating.

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