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            <forename>Amerigo</forename>
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        <title>Biblioteca di storia</title>
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        <p>After Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci was the most important navigator and explorer of all time, so much so as to deserve the esteem not only of his contemporary geographers, but also that of historians like Francesco Guicciardini who, in one of the most important chapters of his history of Italy, raised him to the rank of protagonist of universal history. The originality of this collection - bringing together for the first time all known letters of Amerigo Vespucci - consists in having considered (and demonstrated) the special nature of such correspondence as a “chronicle” of the daily life of Renaissance Tuscany and Florence, deeply marked by Humanism, with its taste, lifestyle, ideas, interests (including geographical interests), creations (printed books and their typographical workshops) from which Vespucci drew many suggestions. Once he moved first to Seville and then to Lisbon, Vespucci gained a new human experience that pushed him, following the mysteries of the Atlantic Ocean, in search of the “fame” suggested to him by the humanistic culture. After the “wonder” of the New World discovered, the result of this “intellectual chemistry” moved him to recount daily life on the Spanish and Portuguese caravels, and to describe with ethnological passion the new lands and their inhabitants in a unique and unrepeatable frame in the history of humanity.</p>
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        <p>Amerigo Vespucci fu, dopo Cristoforo Colombo, il navigatore ed esploratore più importante di tutti i tempi, tanto da meritare la stima non solo dei geografi suoi contemporanei, ma anche quella degli storici come Francesco Guicciardini che, in uno dei capitoli più importanti della sua Storia d’Italia, lo innalzò al rango di protagonista della storia universale.
L’originalità di questa raccolta – che riunisce per la prima volta tutte le lettere note del Vespucci – consiste nell’aver considerato (e dimostrato) questo epistolario come una ‘cronaca’ della vita quotidiana della Toscana e della Firenze rinascimentali, profondamente segnate dall’Umanesimo, con il suo gusto, stile di vita, idee, interessi (anche geografici), realizzazioni (i libri a stampa e i suoi opifici tipografici) da cui il Vespucci trasse non poche suggestioni.
Una volta trasferitosi prima a Siviglia e poi a Lisbona, Vespucci maturò un’esperienza umana nuova che lo spinse, seguendo i misteri dell’Oceano Atlantico, alla ricerca della ‘fama’ trasmessagli dall’Umanesimo. Il risultato di questa ‘chimica intellettuale’, una volta superata la ‘meraviglia’ del Nuovo Mondo scoperto, lo mosse a raccontare la vita quotidiana sulle caravelle spagnole e portoghesi, e a descrivere con passione etnologica le nuove terre e i loro abitanti in un momento unico ed irripetibile nella storia dell’umanità.

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