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	Giovanni da Verrazano Summary
		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.
		Giovanni da Verrazzano was born at Val di Greve, near the city of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy, around 1485 and died in 1528 in the Lesser Antilles.
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	Giovanni da Verrazano - Encyclopedia.com
		Giovanni da Verrazano, c.1480-1527?, Italian navigator and explorer, in the service of France, possibly the first European to enter New York Bay.
		Highlights in history on this date: 1524 - Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano arrives in France to report of his discoveries in the New World, which include the New York Bay.
		Speaking of the bridge, Giovanni da Verrazano, in 1524, was the Italian...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-VerraznG.html (782 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazano - TheBestLinks.com - Brazil, Florida, Florence, Guadeloupe, ...
		Giovanni da Verrazano (his last name is also spelled Verrazzano) was born, 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.
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	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 information - Search.com
		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.
		Giovanni da Verrazano was born at Val di Greve, near the city of Florence, in the Tuscany region of Italy in about 1485 and died in 1528 in the Lesser Antilles.
		This mistake led mapmakers, starting with Visconte 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.
	www.search.com /reference/Giovanni_da_Verrazano (757 words)

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		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.
		The voyage of John de Verazzano: along the coast of North America, from Carolina to Newfoundland, A. by Giovanni da Verrazzano.
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	Giovanni da Verrazano: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		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.
	www.encyclopedian.com /gi/Giovanni-da-Verrazzano.html (485 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giovanni da Verrazzano was born at Val di Greve, near the city of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy, about 1485 and died in 1528 in the Lesser Antilles.
		Sailing along the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina, he recorded what he observed to be a large inland sea, which he thought was the beginning of the Pacific, although 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, the two parts connected by a thin land bridge on the east coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giovanni_da_Verrazano (850 words)

	Verrazano Giovanni da - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Staten Island was sighted by the explorer Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524.
		The Florentine navigator Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524 became the first European to sail on the Hudson.
		Giovanni da Verrazano, sailing in the service of France, explored the Massachusetts coast in 1524, but no settlement resulted from his voyage.
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	Giovanni da Verrazano (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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
		Although Verrazano was the first person to name sites in the New World after people and places in the Old World, but most for these names are no longer used.
		Although Verrazano was unsuccessful in luring the French to invest on settlements and colonies in the New World, he was able to organize another expedition in 1527.
		The Verrazano Narrows, at the mouth of New York Harbor and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor (between Brooklyn and Staten Island) are named after him.
	www.thepirateking.com /bios/verrazano_giovanni_da.htm (313 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.
		Giovanni was going ashore in a boat to greet the natives, wading the last part while the boat, with his brother, remained at sea.
		Frédéric Dupont: Giovanni da Verrazzano 1485-1528 Explorateur Italien
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/verrazzano.html (1229 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giovanni Da Verrazano
		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.
		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.
		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.newadvent.org /cathen/15364a.htm (428 words)

	AllRefer.com - Giovanni da Verrazano (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Giovanni da Verrazano[jOvAn´nE dA ver´´rAtsA´nO; ver´´uzA´nO] Pronunciation Key, 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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/VerraznG.html (207 words)

	Unit II: A Crossroads Resource (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 for the New Land in a single caravel named the Dauphine.
	www.eduref.org /Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec4/Unit_2/Unit_IIQ2R6.html (573 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazano
		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.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/g/gi/giovanni_da_verrazano.html (313 words)

	VERRAZANO, Giovanni da
		While on a second expedition Verrazano was killed by Indians in Brazil.
		Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, is born in the small village of Caprese on March 6, 1475.
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	Verrazano Giovanni Da: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Giovanni da Verrazano's visit to coastal Maine, the earliest visit by...Southern New England in the Colonial Period Giovanni da Verrazano's visit to what is now called Narragansett Bay in...
		In midsummer, 1497, Vasco da Gama, a young man of unwavering courage...1 Thus before his work was half done Da Gama made the longest unbroken sea-voyage...exactly two years after their departure.
		History The Colonial Period Although Giovanni da Verrazano was probably the first European to explore the region and Henry Hudson certainly visited the area, it was...
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	Giovanni da Verrazzano (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
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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)

	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 Verrazzano aka Jean (Fluery) Florin aka "The Florentino" and Jean d'Ango.
		Giovanni da Verrazano or Jean Florin was born near Florence in 1485.
		Giovanni was going ashore in a boat to greet the natives, wading the last part while the boat, with his brother, remained at sea.
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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		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.
		Reproductions of the Maggiolo, G. da Verrazzano, and Gastaldo maps are in Stevenson [infra].
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34694 (2303 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Giovanni da Verrazzano
		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.
		It was only with great effort in the 1950s and 1960s that Verrazzano's name and reputation as the European discoverer of the harbour was re-established, during an effort to have the newly built Narrows bridge named after him.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Giovanni_da_Verrazano (937 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazzano
		Giovanni da Verrrazzano was born in Tuscany, Italy.
		Giovanni da Verrazzano was born in Italy but, sailed for France.
		Giovanni da Verrazano had impact on the new world in many ways.
	www.asij.ac.jp /elementary/gr5web/c5r/explorer_reports/stefan.htm (393 words)

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		Giovanni da Verrazzano came from a good Italian family and was a well educated Renaissance man
		Giovanni da Verrazzano travelled the seas as a pirate, or Privateer sailing for King Francis I of France, attacking ships belonging to the Spanish and the Portuguese
		Giovanni da Verrazzano explored the coast of North America - Cape Fear, New York Bay, the North Carolina coast, Maine and Nova Scotia
	www.elizabethan-era.org.uk /giovanni-da-verrazzano.htm (473 words)

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