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Explorer. Age of Discovery. Quick Facts: He explored much of the North American east coast from North Carolina up to Maine, and was the first European to reach present day New York. Name: Giovanni da Verrazzano [jaw-vahn-nee] [dah] [ver-uh-zah-noh; (Italian) ver-rah-tsah-naw] Birth/Death: 1485 CE - 1528 CE. Nationality: Florentine.
Jan 7, 2008 · Giovanni da Verrazzano, explorer (born in or near Florence circa 1485; died in the West Indies circa 1528). Verrazzano explored North America’s eastern coastline on behalf of France, while searching for a westward route to China. His explorations demonstrated to Europeans that the coast from Florida to Cape Breton was continuous.
May 23, 2018 · G iovanni da Verrazano (also Verrazzano) was an Italian explorer commissioned by the king of France to chart the eastern coast of North America, from Florida to Newfoundland. His main goal was to find a passage to Asia via the Pacific Ocean.
Aug 1, 2017 · Giovanni da Verrazzano – Italian Explorer of the North American Coast. August 1, 2017. 0. 2099. Giovanni da Verrazano. In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazzano’s first voyage explored the northeast coast of, what would later become, the United States.
Jan 12, 2023 · Giovanni da Verrazzano was a navigator of Tuscan origin, said to be born either in 1491 (or less likely in 1485), who, between 7 March 1524 (sighting of Cape Fear, North Carolina) and early July 1524 (arrival in Dieppe), led his ship Dauphine in the earliest known European exploration of the Eastern coasts of what are now the United States and ...
Giovanni da Verrazzano. 1485-1528. Italian discoverer who was the first European to explore and chart the Atlantic coastline from Newfoundland to as far south as North Carolina, including what is now known as the New York harbor.
VERRAZZANO (“Janus Verrazanus,” the one extant signature on a deed dated 11 May 1526, now in the archives at Rouen, is generally conceded to be a Latinized form of the original Italian spelling ), GIOVANNI DA, explorer, navigator, merchant adventurer, the first European, according to authentic record, to sail the coast of America from Florida to...
