Why Italy

Said who America is named after an Italian sailor called Amerigo? History does not document such a person?

Proof anyone?

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1. The name is Amerigo Vespucci-(1451-1512), an Italian navigator and astronomer, was born in Florence, Italy, on March 9, 1451, and died in Seville, Spain, on February 22, 1512. He made several voyages to the northern coast of South America and, in 1498, is said to have skirted the coast of North America from Florida to Chesapeake bay. He reached the mainland of America in 1497, eighteen days before John Cabot. A geographical work published by one Waldseemüller at Freiburg, Germany, comments at some length on the discoveries of Vespucci, and in his remarks the publisher says: "Now a fourth part [of the world] has been found by Amerigo or Americus." Thus it was that the new world came to be known as America. See The first four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci (London, 1893).
2. AMERIGO VESPUCCI lol i did not know this until i googled it to answer your question it is true
3. It was Amerigo Vespucci that has been said that America was named after.
4. Do you mean Amerigo Vespucci- the italian explorer and cartographer. It is believed America was named after him.