Giovanni Vespucci (1484after 1524), also known as Juan Vespucio or Vespucci, was an Italo-Spanish geographer, cartographer, and cosmographer. He was born in

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around 1484. With his uncle Amerigo, he moved to

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in Castile,

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, where he was employed as a cartographer and cosmographer. In 1524, he was called upon as an expert to attend a board meeting between representatives of Spain and Portugal at the Old Town Hall in

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to clarify the status of their territorial arrangements, attended by the likes of Hernando Colón, Sebastián Caboto,

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, Diego Ribeiro, and Esteban Gómez.

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