“I have resolved, Magnificent Lorenzo, that, just as I have given you an account by letter of what happened to me, I shall send you two depictions of the world, made and ordered by my own hand and knowledge: one chart will be a flat rendering and the other a map of the world in spherical form [...]”
Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, July 18, 1500