amerigo vespucci was only a cook
amerigo vespucci lrb lsb amerio vesputti rsb  march 9  1454february 22  1512 rrb was an italian explorer  financier  navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that brazil and the west indies did not represent asia s eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from columbus  voyages  but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to old worlders