"Amerigo Vespucci (/vɛˈspuːtʃi/; Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer from the Republic of Florence. Sailing ...
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for Portugal around 1501–1502, Vespucci demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies were not Asia´s eastern outskirts (as initially conjectured from Columbus´ voyages) but a separate, unexplored land mass colloquially known as the New World. In 1507, the new continent was named America after the Latin version of Vespucci´s first name. Vespucci became a citizen of the Crown of Castile and died in Seville (1512)." - (en.wikipedia.org 06.11.2019)
