{{Short description|Italian-Spanish geographer, cartographer and cosmographer}}'''Giovanni Vespucci''' (1487{{spaced ndash}}after 1527), also known as '''Juan Vespucio''' or '''Vespucci''', was an Italo-Spanish geographer, cartographer, and cosmographer.
He was born in Florence in 1487.<ref>Robles Macías 2024, 59-60</ref> He moved to Seville in Castile, Spain, where his uncle Amerigo Vespucci was pilot major of the House of Indies. Following Amerigo's death, Giovanni (now called Juan) was employed as a cartographer and cosmographer.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=vespucio-juan | title=Vespucio, Juan | publisher=Mcnbiografias.com | access-date=9 August 2013}}</ref> He was also made a citizen of Castile.<ref>Robles Macías 2024, 139</ref>
In 1524, he was called upon as an expert to attend a board meeting between representatives of Spain and Portugal in Badajoz to clarify the status of their territorial arrangements, together with the likes of Hernando Colón, Sebastián Caboto, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Diego Ribeiro, and Esteban Gómez.<ref>{{cite book|last=Vallín|first=Acisclo Fernández|title=Discursos leídos ante la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Fsi-29qE0YwC|year=1899|publisher=Establecimiento tipográfico "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra"|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Fsi-29qE0YwC/page/n136 93]}}</ref>
== Maps == [[File:Geocarta Nautica Universale (color).png|thumb|right|500px|The Geocarta Nautica Universale (1523), the first known map to show the discoveries of the Magellan Expedition, believed to have been a copy of the Spanish Padron Real drafted under Vespucci and now held by the Royal Library of Turin.]]Two manuscript maps signed by Juan Vespucci have been preserved. One is a portolan chart dated 1520, the other a large nautical-style planisphere dated 1526. Both were made in Seville.<ref>Robles Macías 2024, 22-23</ref>
In addition, a world map in polar azimuthal equidistant projection was published around 1524 with a title that attributes it to Juan Vespucci. Three different versions are known.<ref>Robles Macías 2024, 419-434</ref>
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===Bibliography=== *{{cite book|date=2024 |first=Luis A. |language=en |last=Robles Macías |publisher=Université Libre de Bruxelles |title=Juan Vespucci (1487 - ca. 1527): A Cosmographer, Seaman and Merchant at the Heart of Spanish Charting of the New World |url=https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/366721/4/Juan_Vespucci_PhD_thesis.pdf}}<!-- auto-translated from Italian by Module:CS1 translator -->
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