History of South America

What man tha America was named born in a Italina city?

Answer: Amerigo Vespucci

*Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, navigator, and cartographer who was born on March 9, 1454 in the city of Florence, Italy. He is best known for being the first European known to have realized that America was a new world separate from Asia. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map that labeled the American continents "America" in Vespucci's honor.*