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SUBJECT OF BOOKS

David Boyle. Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America. New York: Walker & Co. (via Macmillan). 2008. 421pp.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America. New York: Random House. 2007. 231pp.

PARALLELS

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

5. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1506)

6. Webster's American Biographies (p.1075)

7. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.790)

8. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.1077)

9. The Catholic Encyclopedia (vol.15, pp.384-87)

10. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.498)

11. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.705)

12. Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750 (p.303)

13. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.164)

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