Oct. 19 – The success of last February’s 500th anniversary of Vespucci’s death, celebrated at Saint John’s University, in New York, has led the Florentines in the World Association to replicate the event within the Columbus Day 2012 celebration. In fact, the Association was able to secure the Room of the Americas of the Organization of American States to honor Vespucci, explorer and star-mapper from Florence. Andrea Claudio Galluzzo, president of the Association, was present alongside Sebastiano Fulci, ambassador, and Francesco Bardazzi, proconsul of the Association in the United States.
The exhibit was opened to the public; and later a statue of Vespucci, work of the American sculptor Gregg Wyatt, under commission of the Italian government for the 500th Vespucci anniversary, was revealed.
