A prominent Florentine Amerigo Vespucci was born March 9, 1454 traveler years. participated in several Spanish and Portuguese expeditions (1499-1504) to the coast of South America, called the new world for the first time suggested that the new part of the world that Lorraine m. cartographer named in 1507 Waldseemüller, Amerigo Vespucci America. is considered one of the pioneer in South America, the Amazon Delta, the Gulf of Venezuela, Maracaibo and Brazilian Highlands lagoon Chief Navigator of Spain.