Amerigo is an album of the Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics...

. It was released in 1978 by EMI

EMI

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 Italiana. The title track is about the story of Enrico Guccini,a granduncle of Guccini who had emigrated to the United States

United States

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 before World War II

World War II

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, hence the album title (America was named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.-Expeditions:...

).

The album contains one of Guccini's most famous songs, the long ballad "Eskimo".

Track listing

• "Amerigo" (7:03)
• "Libera nos Domine" (4:36)
• "100, Pennsylvania Ave." (6:35)
• "Eskimo" (8:18)
• "Le cinque anatre" (3:46)
• "Mondo nuovo" (5:12)