By a mistake in the date in his account of his travels, Vespucci's name came to be given to the new continent, and it was then too late to alter it.

He became a naturalized Spaniard and died in 1512.

Columbus indeed suffers in Florence; for had it not been for Vespucci, America would no doubt be called Columbia; while Brunelleschi anticipated him in the egg trick.
The church is very proud of possessing the robe of S.Francis, which is displayed once a year on October 4th.

In the refectory is a "Last Supper" by Ghirlandaio, not quite so good as that which we saw at S.Marco, but very similar, and, like that, deriving from Castagno's at the Cenacolo di Sant' Apollonia.

The predestined Judas is once more on the wrong side of the table.
Returning to the river bank again, we are at once among the hotels and pensions, which continue cheek by jowl right away to the Ponte Vecchio and beyond.