Author: SANTAREM, [Manuel Francisco de Barros
Title: Researches Respecting Americus Vespucius, And His Voyages.
Description: Boston: Charles C.Little & James Brown, 1850.. Translated By E.V.Childe. First Edition 221 p., bibliogr. 12 x 18 cm. HARDCOVER: (Orig.black gilt. cloth binding skilfully repaired with new end papers. VERY GOOD) ¶ Scarce and sought after of theFirst Edition of the English Translation. Sabin 76852. . An unrestrained attack on Vespucci and his claimed discoveries.Amerigo Vespucci was a moneychanger from the Florentine banking House of Medici. Banking was considered the lowest profession because of the unseemly practice of money lending at interest or usury. Vespucci is derived from the Italian word for WASP -a nasty stinging insect. Vespucci arrived in Seville, Spain in 1491 and worked as a clerk for the banking firm of Juanoto Beraldi, branch office of the Medici banking House in Florence. He is never heard of again in any of the historical records until 1503 when he wrote a letter to his boss in Florence and called the newly discovered lands a MUNDUS NOVUS or NEW WORLD. In this Mundus Novus letter, Vespucci claimed to have made 4 voyages to this New World. It is not very hard to PROVE that the so-called voyages were a total fantasy and mere fiction. Vespucci stole John Cabot's geographical information of his 4th and last voyage in 1498.

Keywords: Latin America South America Voyages Travel sea expeditions, discovery Colonial history Bibliography


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