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In Ghirlandaio’s Madonna of Mercy (right aisle, 2nd bay), portrayed immediately to the right of Mary is the Florentine banker-navigator-cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to the continent of America (and whose family was a sponsor of this church).
A correction to the statement in Leslie Brunetta's article, Italian Amerigo is simply Henry in English.
Amerigo Vespucci, meanwhile, also looking for new routes to Asia, ran ashore in Brazil in 1499 and realized that something was not right.
Amerigo (Italian) = Americus (Latin) thus to America [the New World] = Ya-Mei-Li-Chia (Chinese) = “A-Me-Ri-Ka” (one possible Sino-Japanese pronunciation) = “A-Bei-Ri-Ka” (Japanese).
Still, we should be grateful that Waldseemuller opted for Vespucci's first name, for disguising the dull Henry in the voluptuous Amerigo is nothing compared to what Italians have done over the centuries when giving each other surnames.