Amerigo Vespucci Quotes

• I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

  Amerigo Vespucci

  Travel, Preparation, World

  Amerigo Vespucci (1992). “Letters of the Four Voyages to the New World”

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• Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

  Amerigo Vespucci

  Animal, Europe, America

  Mundus Novus (1503) (translation by G. T. Northup)

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• The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please

  Amerigo Vespucci

  Culture, Fixed, Please

  Amerigo Vespucci (1916). “Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere: The Year 1504”

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