The man who lent his name to the American continents was thought to be an intrepid explorer in the league of Christopher Columbus and Vasco de Gama. But a new book portrays Amerigo Vespucci as little ...

A doomsday cult in Northern California known by wine lovers for their vintage is set to be the subject of a new podcast series from Blumhouse Television and Vespucci. Spotify will launch Revelations, ...

Like many famous artworks from the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1485) has a larger-than-life quality. The painting, which depicts the Roman goddess of beauty emerging ...

While some of us have today off of work to reflect on the accomplishments of America's namesake, the Italian cartographer and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the rest are happy to work in celebration of a ...

There's no conclusive evidence, just several contending (and contentious) theories, but it seems unlikely that the two continents are named after Vespucci (after all, it would be Vespucia, or Ameriga, ...

Three of Vespucci’s founders had similar reactions when they first moved from the pristine beaches and lush hills of Oahu to the concrete jungle of the U.S. mainland: “Yuck.” Their response was to the ...