biography
pronunciation:
[vespoochee]
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| lived:
| (1454–1512)
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| biography:
| Explorer, born in Florence, NC Italy. He promoted a voyage to the New World in the track of Columbus, sailed with its commander (1499), and explored the coast of Venezuela. In 1505 he was naturalized in Spain, and from 1508 was pilot-major of the kingdom. His name was given to America through an inaccurate account of his travels published in Lorraine (1507), in which he is represented as having discovered and reached the mainland in 1497. |
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