"Amerigo Vespucci" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... long the complete control of the reading world of Europe, and till last century the Italian poets were more widely known and studied than those of any other nation. The baptismal name of the Florentine Amerigo Vespucci was given, on account of his book of travels, to a new quarter of the globe, and if Paolo Giovio, with all his superficiality and graceful caprice, promised himself immortality, his expectation has not altogether ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt |
