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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2007
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007089
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
The papers of the Vespucci family were given to the Library of Congress by Germán Arciniegas in 1993. Other papers in this collection relating to Amerigo Vespucci were acquired by the Library in 1901 and 1913 and were formerly organized as the Amerigo Vespucci Papers.
The papers of the Vespucci family were arranged and described in 1995; the finding aid was revised in 2007.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the Vespucci family is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Vespucci Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Vespucci Family Papers span the years 1409-1989, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1409 to 1570. The collection is composed primarily of research material assembled by historian Germán Arciniegas for his three books on Vespucci family members: Amerígo y el Nuevo Mundo (Mexico: Hermes, 1955), El Mundo de la Bella Simonetta (Bogotá, Colombia: Planeta, 1990), and El Embajador (Bogotá, Colombia: Planeta, 1990). Consisting chiefly of typed transcriptions in Latin and Italian of correspondence and other documents from the public archives of Florence (Archivio di Stato di Firenze), the papers reflect the Vespucci family's business and personal activities and their relations with other prominent Florentine families, including the de Medicis. Also included are brief biographical essays on numerous individual family members, as well as Arciniegas's note cards and correspondence. Notable individuals represented in the collection include the explorer Amerigo Vespucci and diplomat Guido Antonio Vespucci, the subject of Arciniegas's book El Embajador. Amerigo Vespucci is further represented in the collection by several items acquired by the Library in the early 1900s, including English translations of a letter to Laurentius Patri de Medici and Vespucci's account of his travels titled "The Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci."
This collection is organized as the research papers of Germán Arciniegas and a miscellany and arranged alphabetically by type of material therein.
| Container | Contents | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOX 1 | Research papers of Germán Arciniegas | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Correspondence, 1951-1961 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Family members | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Agostino, 1495-1515, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Aloysius, 1480-1481 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Amerigo (1394-1471), n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512) See also Container 10, same heading | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "Americo el Joven, Hijo de Stagio," transcript, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Correspondence received, 1483-1491, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "Libro de Lecciones y Cartas a Su Padre Anastagio," transcript, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Anastagio (1426-1482), 1478 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Antonio (1449-1534), 1476-1526 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Bartolomeo (1479-1527), 1504, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Bernardo (1422- ), 1454-1476 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Bernardo (1455-1527), 1481-1489 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio (1434-1514), 1456-1499, 1955, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | Vespucci, Giovanni (1389-1456), 1431-1447 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | Vespucci, Giovanni (1419- ), 1467-1468 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | Vespucci, Giovanni (1476-1549), 1513-1525 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | Vespucci, Giovanni (1486- ), 1950, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | Vespucci, Girolamo (1451-1498), 1488-1489 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | Vespucci, Giuliano (1406-1466), 1448-1466, 1527-1529 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | Vespucci, Guido Antonio (1436-1501) | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | Correspondence | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | 1471-1483 | ||||||||||||
| (10 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | 1484 | ||||||||||||
| (13 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | 1485-1499, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| (8 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | El Embajador , typescript, 1950, 1989 | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | Vespucci, Lapo, 1418, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | Vespucci, Luca, 1505-1570 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | Vespucci, Marco (1453-1497), 1478 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | Vespucci, Marco, 1478-1525, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Vespucci, Niccolo (1474-1535), 1484, 1522-1532, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Vespucci, Piero (1394-1450), 1409-1429, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Vespucci, Piero (1432-1485), 1458-1494, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Vespucci, Piero (1438-1474), 1468 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Vespucci, Piero (1447-1529), 1478-1518, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| (5 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Vespucci, Simon ( -1400), n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Vespucci, Simone (1437-1508), 1476-1485 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Vespucci, Simonetta (1453-1476), 1474-1475, 1931-1959, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Genealogy, 1898, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| BOX 6 | Note cards | ||||||||||||
| BOX 6 | Set I | ||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | Set II | ||||||||||||
| BOX 8 | Set III | ||||||||||||
| BOX 9 | Set IV | ||||||||||||
| BOX 10 | Miscellany | ||||||||||||
| BOX 10 | Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512) See also Container 1, same heading | ||||||||||||
| BOX 10 | Correspondence, 1500-1505 | ||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 10 | "Four Voyages," translation, 1507 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 10 | Printed matter, n.d. | ||||||||||||
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