Amerigo The Sexual
January, 1994
It is time to face a fact central to the American character: Our country was named after a pornographer.Forget what you thought you knew about Amerigo Vespucci, the navigator whose name mysteriously made its way to the earliest map of the New World. Amerigo was first and foremost a writer of bawdy letters, and he sent these wild tales of the continent he helped discover to his boss, Lorenzo de Medici, and to Florentine godfather Piero Soderini. Interoffice memos haven't been the same since.Ameri...
