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	Giovanni da Verrazano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although we do not know this for sure, it is generally assumed that Giovanni da Verrazano (his last name is also spelled Verrazzano) was born in or around 1485, on his family's castle, Castello Verrazzano, near Val di Greve, 30 miles south of Florence.
		This mistake led mapmakers, starting with Vesconte de Maggiolo in 1527 and Giovanni's brother Girolamo da Verrazano in 1529, to draw North America as being almost split in two, the two parts connected by a thin land bridge on the east coast.
		On the first, he cut logwood in Brazil; on the second (in 1528) he was killed by the natives of one of the Antilles, probably Guadeloupe.
	usapedia.com /g/giovanni-da-verrazano.html (293 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazano
		Giovanni da Verrazano was born sometime around 1485 in his family's castle (Castello Verrazzano) in Val did Greve, Italy.
		In 1507, Verrazano moved to Dieppe in the hopes of pursuing a career in navigation.
		Verrazano believed he saw the Pacific Ocean as he explored the North Carolina coast on the other side of a narrow strip of land.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /verrazano.htm (312 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Verrazano sailed for France and is renowned as the European discoverer of many features of the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada, including New York Harbor, where the Verrazano Narrows Bridge is named in his honor.
		It was only with great effort in the 1950s and 1960s that Verrazano's name and reputation as the European discoverer of the harbor was re-established, during an effort to have the newly built Narrows bridge christened for him.
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	giovanni-da-verrazano.iqnaut.net (669 words)

	Verrazzano Verrazano in Greve in Chianti - holiday homes in Chianti
		In 1556 Ramusio published in his collection of voyages a letter written by Verrazano giving an account of his voyage to the coast of North America and its exploration from 30 degrees to 50 degrees N. lat.
		From this note-book of the voyage his brother Hieronimo drew in 1529 a map of the North Atlantic coast, which is now in the museum of the Propaganda at Rome, and testifies to the accuracy of Verrazano's observations along the coast as far as a point in the present State of Maine.
		Verrazano wrote interesting, though sometimes inaccurate, accounts of the lands and inhabitants that he encountered.
	www.greve-in-chianti.com /verrazano.htm (406 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazano Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Giovanni da Verrazano, a Florentine navigator, was chosen as pilot of one of these ships, the Dauphine.
		Although Verrazano's most significant discoveries were along the middle Atlantic coastal region, his ship traveled as far north as Cape Cod and Nova Scotia.
		Verrazano never returned from that journey; he was likely the victim of either a storm or unfriendly natives.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/giovanni-da-verrazano (473 words)

	Verrazano
		One of the chief opponents of Verrazano, Henry C, Murphy, sought to discredit the explorer because no original manuscript of the "Verrazano Letter" is in existence.
		Verrazano was the first corsair and explorer to sail under the French flag in American waters.
		One book advances the opinion that Verrazano was the Piedmontese pilot who was killed and eaten by savages in 1527, which would harmonize with another author’s statement that he made a second voyage to America and lost his life there.
	nabbhistory.salisbury.edu /Wroten/Verrazano.htm (1508 words)

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		Giovanni da Verrazano was a European explorer who was in the service of the French king, Francis I. He was the first European to make contact with the natives on the East Coast north of Florida and the first to see the New York Harbor.
		When the Portuguese began to dominate the trade route, Giovanni and his younger brother Girolamo, who was a map maker, thought there might be a shorter route to the Pacific, somewhere north of Florida.
		What made Giovanni da Verrazano wonderful was that he wrote everything that he saw and his brother drew maps of what they saw.
	members.tripod.com /babytigger2000/GiovannidaVerrazano.htm (826 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazzano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sailing along the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina, he thought it was a narrow strip of land beyond which was open ocean - it is actually the estuary of the Pamlico Sound and the Albemarle Sound.
		This mistake led mapmakers, starting with Visconte Maggiolo in 1527 and Giovanni's brother Girolamo da Verrazzano in 1529, to draw North America as being almost split in two by the "Sea of Verazzano", the two parts connected by a thin land bridge on the east coast.
		"Giovanni da Verrazzano (Giovanni da Verrazano)" at Greve in Chianti
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giovanni_da_Verrazano (978 words)

	Verrazano, Giovanni Da Biography \| carl_04_package.xml
		Giovanni 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.
		Giovanni da Verrazano was born in 1485 into an aristocratic (ruling class) family in the Chianti region of Tuscany, Italy.
		Verrazano's next expedition in 1527 was sponsored in part by Philippe de Chabot, admiral of France, because the king was preparing for war in Italy and could not spare any ships.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/verrazano-giovanni-da-carl-04 (1401 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Giovanni was born in 1485 in Tuscany, Italy.
		Giovanni wrote some false reports about the native people that he met, and he even stole a native child to take back to France with him on one of his voyages.
		Giovanni da Verrazzano died at the age of 43.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/Exp/gvd/gvd.htm (365 words)

	Unit II: A Crossroads Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Giovanni Da Verrazano was born in 1485 in the area of Italy known as Tuscany.
		The bankers won the support of the French king and Verrazano sailed with a commission from King Francis I to explore the coast of the New Land in search of a passage to the Orient.
		Verrazano sailed south for a distance in order to explore the coast but feared running into hostile Spanish ships.
	www.eduref.org /Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec4/Unit_2/Unit_IIQ2R6.html (573 words)

	The French Corsairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Giovanni da Verrazzano aka Jean (Fluery) Florin aka "The Florentino" and Jean d'Ango.
		Giovanni da Verrazano or Jean Florin was born near Florence in 1485.
		His father was Piero Andrea, the son of Bernardo of Verrazano, a little town situated in the Val di Greve, near Florence,--the latter Bernardo having belonged to the magistracy of the priors in 1406.Verrazano then moved from Florence to Normandy and
	privateer.omena.org /privateerfrench.htm (3519 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazano
		Giovanni da Verrazano explored because the King of France wanted to claim new land.
		Verrazano Narrows Bridge, named for the famous explorer, opened in 1964 and is the longest suspension bridge in the world
		Verrazano was sent on the first voyages by the King of France to find a western route to China.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/explorers/verrazano.htm (135 words)

	Athena Review 3,2: The East Coast Explorations of Giovanni Verrazano (1524)
		AD 1000, and the Italian mariner John Cabot reached the Great Banks fisheries in the 1490s, Giovanni Verrazano was the first European to sail up the mid-Atlantic coast, passing through and, at some points, describing the region of future early English colonies.
		Verrazano, a Tuscan nobleman born in 1485, was commissioned in 1523 by a group of Italian bankers in Lyon, at the heart of France’s silk industry, to lead an expedition seeking such a westward passage to East Asia.
		Verrazano initially steered the ship south to seek a protective harbor, but before reaching as far as Charleston Harbor, he turned around to avoid meeting hostile Spaniard ships.
	www.athenapub.com /verazano.htm (860 words)

	Giovanni Da Verrazzano - Search View - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Giovanni da Verrazano or Verrazano, Giovanni da (circa 1480-1527?), Italian navigator, born in Val di Greve, near Florence.
		While on a second expedition Verrazano was killed by Native Americans in Brazil.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552283__1/Giovanni_Da_Verrazzano.html (210 words)

	Giovanni de Verazano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Giovanni de Verrazano was born around Florence, Italy in the year 1485.
		Giovanni de Verrazano also beacame a famous corsair later on in his life.
		The Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York named in memorial of the great explorer.
	www.geocities.com /lildude12891 (195 words)

	Discoverers Web: Verrazzano
		Giovanni da Verrazzano (also spelled Giovanni da Verrazano) explored the east coast of what is now the United States in 1525.
		As he was a fan of everything Italian, it is no wonder that he chose the Florentine Giovanni da Verrazzano to lead the expedition.
		Giovanni was going ashore in a boat to greet the natives, wading the last part while the boat, with his brother, remained at sea.
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/verrazzano.html (1229 words)

	Verrazano, Giovanni da - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Verrazano, Giovanni da, c.1480-1527?, Italian navigator and explorer, in the service of France, possibly the first European to enter New York Bay.
		Sailing west to reach Asia, Verrazano explored (1524) the North American coast probably from North Carolina to Maine.
		In 1526, or later, sailing from France, he explored the West Indies, where he was killed by the natives.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-verrazng1.html (265 words)

	Giovanni de Verrazano
		It is claimed that during the voyage he was captured on the southern coast of Spain, and executed at Pico as a privateer His exploits, capture, and execution are narrated by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and others, who call him Juan Florin.
		The authenticity of the letter was attacked in 1864 by Bucking: ham Smith, who claimed that Esteban Gomez, pilot of Magellan, was the first to visit the coast of Carolina in 1525.
		The conclusion is not yet definitive, as George W. Greene discovered in the Strozzi library at Florence a manuscript copy of Verrazano's letter, varying somewhat in text from the Ramusio version, and containing some additional paragraphs.
	www.famousamericans.net /giovannideverrazano (722 words)

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		The first European to explore NC was Giovanni da Verrazano; he was looking for a new route to the Orient.
		Verrazano sailed on along the coast and could see over the Outer Banks into the Pamlico and Albemarle sounds.
		Verrazano continued northward to explore the eastern seaboard of North America going as far as Nova Scotia.
	www.carteretcountyschools.org /bcms/NCexploring.htm (746 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Verrazzano had a younger brother, Gerolamo, to whom he must have been close; another, named Bernardo, was a prominent banker in Rome; and two others found in a genealogical register are given as Nicolo and Piero.
		The position of his family as well-to-do merchants and bankers, and his mastery of the elements of navigation and the literary culture revealed in his famous Letter, are sufficient evidence of a superior education.
		“Arcadia,” the name Giovanni gave to Maryland or Virginia “on account of the beauty of the trees,” made its first cartographical appearance in the 1548 Gastaldo map and is the only name to survive in Canadian usage.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34694 (2303 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazano
		A bronze statute, set up in 1910, by his admiring fellow-countrymen, facing the mouth of the great river on whose east bank the metropolis of the United States has grown, proclaims their conviction that Giovanni da Verrazano, and not Henry Hudson, was its discoverer.
		Memorial History of the City of New York, II (New York, 1892); BREVOORT, Verrazano the Navigator (New York, 1874); IDEM, Verrazano the First Explorer of the Atlantic Coast in Magazine of Am.
		Hist., VIII (New York, 1882), 481; DE COSTA, Verrazano the Explorer (New York, 1880); MURPHY, Voyages of Verrazano (New York, 1875); Collections of N.Y. Hist.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/v/verrazano,giovanni_da.html (304 words)

	Verrazano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Giovanni da Verrazzano explored the east- coast of the United States in 1525.
		Giovanni da Verrazzano qas known best for discovering New York Harbor, but he mistaken it for Pamilo Sound for the Pacific.
		Here Giovanni kidnapped a young child, and failed to kidnap a young woman.
	www.wadsworth.k12.oh.us /central/Explorers/Verrazano.htm (747 words)

	Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is from Verrazano’s descriptions of the Rhode Island coastline and islands that the state derives the first part of its name.
		From there, according to a letter written by Verrazano, dated July 8, 1524, he sailed in an easterly direction until he "discovered an island in the form of a triangle, distant from the mainland ten leagues, about the bigness of the Island of Rhodes" which he named Luisa after the Queen Mother of France.
		Verrazano’s letter describing his visit to Rhode Island was known in England for it had been printed in English long before the Pilgrims came to New England.
	www.sec.state.ri.us /library/riinfo/know-rhode-island (7297 words)

	Explorers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Giovanni Da Verrazano was born in 1485 in Tuscany, Italy.
		Verrazano wanted to explore the new lands because he wanted to go to get the gold and spices.
		Giovanni Da Verrazano was a guy from Italy and the king of France sent him.
	www.greece.k12.ny.us /ch/masiuk/Masiuk2_files/slide0003.htm (135 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazzano
		Verrazzano's accomplishments were honored in the 1964 dedication of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which links Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York Harbor.
		Wroth, The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano (1970...
		Memorabilia related to Giovanni da Verrazzano is at auction on eBay.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h534.html (515 words)

	Verrazano Bridge NYC Photo Gallery by David Dong at pbase.com
		When it opened in 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was the world's longest suspension span.
		The ends of the bridge are at historic Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn and Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, both of which guarded New York Harbor at the Narrows for over a century.
		The bridge was named after Giovanni da Verrazano, who, in 1524, was the first European explorer to sail into New York Harbor.
	www.pbase.com /david_dong/verrazano_bridge_nyc (115 words)

	Process
		Verrazano, discovers Long Island's southern and western shores, calls the land 'Flora'.
		Giovanni da Verrazzano (also spelled Verrazano) was born in Tuscany, Italy in 1485 and died in 1528 in the Lesser Antilles.
		It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
	www.teachersnetwork.org /everywhere/Frerichs/verrazano1.htm (234 words)

	WNYC - News - Verrazano Bridge Turns 40
		BROOKLYN, NY November 21, 2004 —When the Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened forty years ago this weekend, it was the world’s longest suspension bridge.
		WAGNER: The Verrazano narrows bridge is the longest and costliest single span suspension bridge in the world.
		The Verrazano Bridge exhibit is at the Brooklyn Historical Society through March.
	wnyc.org /news/articles/40927 (840 words)

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