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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).
Amerigo Vespucci, meanwhile, also looking for new routes to Asia, ran ashore in Brazil in 1499 and realized that something was not right.
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).
' This brings Amerigo Vespucci into the picture.