Once Upon a Time: Life
Amerigo Vespucci and the New York World
S6 E10:
America’s not called Columbia, after its discoverer Columbus, but still America. Amerigo Vespucci comes from a bourgeois family. As a child of the Italian renaissance (he was born in 1454 in Florence) he studies the typical subjects Astronomy, Philosophy, Latin and Cartography. His friends are Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli, who steals his girlfriend and makes her his favorite model for painting. Amerigo wants to see the world and experience some adventures. One day, Columbus comes back from his first expedition. Amerigo is convinced that the place that Columbus discovered could impossibly be India… Later he goes on a journey himself.