The Florentines Around the World Association and the European School of Economics, in collaboration with the Assembly of Tuscans Around the World and St John’s University, is organising an exhibition entitled “Amerigo’s America – Florence and the Merchants of the New World” dedicated to Amerigo Vespucci on the anniversary of the fifth centenary of his death.

MGF: verso la messa al bando universale giovedì 01 marzo 2012 “Una data indubbiamente da ricordare”. Così, a conclusione del suo concerto tenutosi nella sala plenaria dell'Assemblea Generale dell'Onu e dedicato al tema delle mutilazioni genitali femminili, la cantante beninese Angélique Kidjio ha definito la giornata del 27 febbraio 2012.

Five centuries after his death in 1512, exhibitions in New York and Florence celebrate broker, explorer and writer, Amerigo Vespucci, who gave name to two continents.

"The Godfather" actually succeed in defining what it means to be American, Italian or not. To paraphrase the film's own mantra: "it's personal, not business." The Corleones fight over the very issues that the entire American population fights over: money, power, control, lust and social status. The only 21st century American desire missing from this list is the ever-increasing shrill demand for fame, but, oh, how Don Corleone would have understood the cynical amoral manipulations of the bankers behind the country's 21st century financial crisis.