The so-called 'team of precision navigation' is led by Gabriele Demurtas, the officer in charge of the path the Amerigo Vespucci's follows on its 'voyage'. He designs maps, calculates routes and ...

Amerigo Vespucci was a 16th century explorer, ... "Amerigo Vespucci took at least three voyages westward," said Cosme. ... Waldseemüller's maps sold thousands of copies across Europe.

Streams, cities, mountains, schools, squares and a space shuttle bear the name of Christopher Columbus, or at least a derivative of it. But North and South America, two continents unknown to Europe… ...

“Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to America, was a pimp in his youth and a magus in his maturity,” writes Felipe Fernández-Armesto in his new biography (Random House, 231 pages, $24.95). His ...

The Amerigo Vespucci, the famous sailing ship of the Italian Navy launched in 1931 at the shipyards of Castellammare di Stabia, renews its historic bond with Naples, where it will dock from May 13 ...

The name “America” was invented 500 years ago, in 1507. The German mapmaker who did it mistakenly thought Italian adventurer Amerigo Vespucci had discovered the mainland of the New World. The ...