18-05-2020, 08:10 AM
There are larger things to rename.
Take, for example, America. There were people in America prior to Amerigo Vespucci. There were even Europeans in America prior to Amerigo Vespucci.
Vespucci did not discover America, nor even rediscovered it. He just publicised it internationally a bit as a "new world".
He never used the name America himself.
So, time and again, the word America bothers me as an Italian name, while in reality America has no Italian origin whatsoever.
That lucky guy Vespucci just got his name unfairly attached!
Take, for example, America. There were people in America prior to Amerigo Vespucci. There were even Europeans in America prior to Amerigo Vespucci.
Vespucci did not discover America, nor even rediscovered it. He just publicised it internationally a bit as a "new world".
He never used the name America himself.
So, time and again, the word America bothers me as an Italian name, while in reality America has no Italian origin whatsoever.
That lucky guy Vespucci just got his name unfairly attached!