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But I think it is also because America sounds so nice, because the pure music of Amerigo Vespucci makes up for any lies he might have told.
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).
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).
People were lulled by that music into neglecting to notice that in Italian Amerigo is simply Henry in English.
Which brings me back to Martin Waldseemuller and Amerigo Vespucci and why we should give thanks that the German fell under the spell of the Italian's first name rather than his last.