Vespucci's Voyages

Vespucci was born in 1454 in Florence, Italy. In 1491 Vespucci went to live in Spain. In Spain Vespucci worked for a company that helped prepare supplies for voyages for people. During work Vespucci saw and met Christopher Columbus. He helped to gather supplies for the second and third voyages of Columbus.

Vespucci was the son of a famous Italian man. Vespucci received his education by his family when he was younger mostly his uncle. When Vespucci was older he was assigned a job from the Medici family, the Medici family is a rich Italian family. Vespucci was assigned to travel to France and become the Medici’s spokesman to the king of France. Vespucci got back to Italy and had gotten a job as a ship supplier. During 1991, Vespucci’s boss

There are two series of documents, the first series was a letter from a Vespucci in Lisbon, Portugal. The letter had mentioned four of Vespucci’s voyages and was written in Italian. It was soon printed in English. The date on the letter was September 4, 1504. In the first series of documents, there were two different types of the letter from Portugal one of them was called,” Quattuor Americi navigationes” while the other had the title of “Mundus Novus”. According to the second series of documents were three different private letters to the Medici family. In the second series had only two of the voyages. Soon a theory arises in the 1930s, the documents were supposedly skillful manipulations while the private letters were real