Amerigo Vespucci was a traveler.
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 .	Asia	Asia	Italian	Italy#Early_Modern	explorer	explorer	financier	financier	navigator	navigator	cartographer	cartographer	Brazil	Brazil	West Indies	West Indies
