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Montefioralle

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About 2 km (1 mi) west of Greve in Chianti is the tiny hilltop hamlet of Montefioralle. This is the ancestral home of Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), the mapmaker, navigator, and explorer who named America. (His niece Simonetta may have been the inspiration for Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus, painted sometime in the 1480s.)

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