Giovanni Vespucci

Giovanni Vespucci (1484 – after 1524), also known as Juan Vespucio or Vespucci, was an Italo-Spanish geographer, cartographer, and cosmographer. He was born in Florence around 1484. With his uncle Amerigo, he moved to Seville in Castile, Spain, where he was employed as a cartographer and cosmographer. In 1524, he was called upon as an expert to attend a board meeting between representatives of Spain and Portugal at the Old Town Hall in Badajoz to clarify the status of their territorial arrangements, attended by the likes of Hernando Colón, Sebastián Caboto, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Diego Ribeiro, and Esteban Gómez.

The Geocarta Nautica Universale (1523), the first known map to show the discoveries of the Magellan Expedition, believed to have been a copy of the Spanish Padron Real drafted under Vespucci and now held by the Royal Library of Turin.

Copy (c.1900) of the Geocarta Nautica Universale (1523)

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Bibliography

• Vallín, Acisclo Fernández (1899). Discursos leídos ante la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Establecimiento tipográfico "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra". p. 93.