(EN) Tomás Straka, Guillermo Guzmán Mirabal e Alejandro E. Cáceres, Discovery and conquest period, in Historical dictionary of Venezuela, 3ª ed., Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, pp. 5-8, ISBN 9781538109496, LCCN 2017033067.
«[...] Alonso de Ojeda, sailed along the whole coast of current Venezuela in 1499. He was joined by a factor of the Medici house in Spain, Amerigo Vespucci, looking for business opportunities, who when noticing the settlements of palafitos in the current Gulf of Venezuela invented the name of the country, which means "Little Venice" ("Venezziola" in Italian). [...]»