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	Giovanni da Verrazano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Verrazzano 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 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.
		Although Verrazzano was the first recorded European to visit the East Coast of the present-day United States, his reputation did not endure and proliferate as much as other explorers of that era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giovanni_da_Verrazzano (822 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : New France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1524, Italian navigator Giovanni de Verrazzano explored the eastern shore and named the new lands Francesca, in honor of King Francis I of France.
		In 1670, with the help of French coureurs des bois, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, the Hudson's Bay Company was established to control the fur trade in all the land that drained into Hudson Bay.
		In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle explored the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and claimed the entire territory for France as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /New_France (2206 words)

	Discoverers Web: Verrazzano
		Although we do not know this for sure, it is generally assumed that Verrazzano was born in or around 1485, on his family's castle, Castello Verrazzano, near Val di Greve, 30 miles south of Florence.
		His 1529 world map was one of the two first maps to show Verrazzano's discoveries (the other was Vesconte de Maggiolo's 1527 map of the western hemisphere).
		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)

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		Verrazzano sailed into Dieppe in early July -- after a six week eastward passage -- and promptly filed a report of the voyage in aletter to his Lyons backers and King Francis on July 8, 1524.
		Unfortunately for Verrazzano, his hopes for a second voyage backed by Francis I were dashed by the king's preoccupation with the renewal of war with Charles V of Spain.
		Verrazzano then tried to interest England's Henry VII and Portugal's King John in a westward voyage to the East, but to no effect.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /maritime/GVerr_bio.htm (772 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	Verrazzano
		The Castle of Verrazzano is located on the hilltop in the Chianti Classico area, the first grape growing and wine producing area in the world to be determined by an official proclamation, made by the grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici in 1716.
		Giovanni da Verrazzano, who discovered the bay of New York and the main part of the east coast of America, was in fact born here in 1485.
		The "vineyards situated in Verrazzano" are mentioned in a manuscript which dates back to 1170 and is preserved at the abbey of Passignano.
	www.smallwinemakers.ca /Verrazzano.html (521 words)

	Verrazzano (1524) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Giovanni da Verrazzano, an explorer, navigator and merchant, was born in Florence or the vicinity around 1485.
		As in the cases of John Cabot and Jacques Cartier, we know almost nothing about Verrazzano before his first voyage of discovery to America, which he undertook in 1524 under the sponsorship of France.
		In 1528 Verrazzano undertook a second voyage in search of the undiscoverable passage to Asia, this time to the south of the region he had explored previously.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /2/8/h8-263-e.html (92 words)

	Quahog.org: Rhode Island's Charms Appealed to a Long-ago Visitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Verrazzano wrote that the port was on the same latitude as Rome, "but somewhat colder on account of chance and not on account of nature..." His identification of rocky islands "adapted for the building of any desired engine or bulwark for its protection" fits the description of Jamestown's Colonial Fort Dumpling, later named Fort Wetherill.
		Verrazzano was so delighted with Narragansett Bay and the Wampanoag natives that he made his only exception to his practice of mooring in the open sea and agreed to drop anchor in protected Newport Harbor.
		It was Verrazzano, however, who left the written record of his visit and the beauty and pleasure of Narragansett Bay and the Wampanoag Indians.
	www.quahog.org /factsfolklore/index.php?id=103 (922 words)

	Giovanni da Verrazzano
		Verrazzano was born in Tuscany, near Florence, and was the recipient of a thorough education.
		Verrazzano made a later voyage, perhaps in 1527, to the West Indies and the coast of South America.
		Verrazzano's accomplishments were honored in the 1964 dedication of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which links Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York Harbor.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h534.html (347 words)

	The Naming of the Verrazzano
		Verrazzano's report to Francis I contained the first description of the northeastern coast of North America and gave France its claim to American lands.
		The manager stated that he had never heard of Verrazzano and that the name was too long and difficult to spell and pronounce.
		Once the bill naming the proposed bridge in honor of Verrazzano was introduced in the State Assembly, the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce joined the fight against the name.
	www.italianhistorical.org /VerrazzanoBridgeStory.htm (799 words)

	Verrazzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Verrazzano sent one ship and 50 men to watch it go back to France, so France could get the money on it.
		Verrazzano continued on his journey with a 100 ton ship and 50 men only to find nothing but about how long the coast line is. He also proved that the land is not Asia.
		Verrazzano took two more voyages, and on the second voyage he was killed and eaten by cannibals in about 1528.
	www.3rd1000.com /history3/explorers/verrazzano.htm (186 words)

	VERRAZZANO DAY: HALF A MILLENNIUM OF HISTORY - Chianti Classico Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		April 17 is Verrazzano Day and this year the date of the discovery of what is now New York Harbor in 1524 by the navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano was celebrated anew in Chianti Classico.
		The inauguration in the afternoon of the restored monument to Giovanni da Verrazzano in Piazza Matteotti at Greve in Chianti was a particularly relevant and prestigious event.
		Cappellini reminded a large crowd of the attention his father had focused on the figure of Giovanni da Verrazzano, the castle and the wine produced in the zone for centuries and exported throughout the world.
	www.chianticlassico.com /english/magazine/200505/articolo6.asp (398 words)

	Giovanni Da Verrazzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Giovanni da Verrazzano (also spelled Verrazano) was born in Tuscany, Italy in 1485 and died in 1528 in the Lesser Antilles.
		In January of 1524, Verrazzano set sail, his vessel being named La Dauphine (a term traditionally used to refer to the eldest son of the king - the individual immediately in line to the throne).
		Virtually unknown, Verrazzano was raised from obscurity by the efforts of John N. LaCorte, founder of the Italian Historical Society of America, who was instrumental in having the bridge spanning the entrance to New York Harbor at the narrows and joining Staten Island and Brooklyn named
	www.italianhistorical.org /verrazzano.htm (291 words)

	Explorers - V - EnchantedLearning.com
		De Vaca and his fellow travelers were the first Europeans to see the bison, or American buffalo.
		Verrazzano's brother, Girolamo da Verrazzano, was a mapmaker who accompanyed Giovanni on his voyage, and mapped the voyage.
		Verrazzano was killed and eaten by Carib Indians in 1528.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/indexv.shtml (945 words)

	Tourist Attractions in Florence, Italy - Via Giovanni da Verrazzanoi
		Walk down a prestigious street, Via Giovanni da Verrazzano, where the great navigator and explorer of the Atlantic, Giovanni da Verrazzano, was born.
		An inscription at the base of a small statue in Battery Park announces, “Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first citizen of New York”.
		Verrazzano’s house was just a few meters away from this tabernacle.
	www.vacationrentalinflorence.com /area_verrazzano.html (172 words)

	Verrazano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Giovanni da Verrazzano explored the east- coast of the United States in 1525.
		Verrazzano came upon a discovery after New York Harbor, and anchored in the Narrows, later named after him and now spanned by the Verrazzano Narrows bridge.
		Verrazzano says the following of the bay and its people, "The people are almost like unto the others, and clad with feather of fowls of diverse colors.
	www.wadsworth.k12.oh.us /central/Explorers/Verrazano.htm (747 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vasco da Gama
		Pedro de Corvilhão on his way from India had descended the east coast of Africa as far as the twentieth degree of south latitude, and had become cognizant of the old Arabic-Indian commercial association.
		Again high honours fell to his share, and in the year 1519 he received instead of Sines, which was transferred to the Order of Santiago, the cities of Vidiguira and Villa dos Frades, resigned by the Duke Dom Jayme of Braganza, with the jurisdiction and the title of count.
		Once again, in 1524, he was sent to India by the Crown, under João III, to supersede the Viceroy Eduardo de Menezes, who was no longer master of the situation.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06374a.htm (678 words)

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	Castello di Verrazzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Castle was an Etruscan then a Roman settlement before becoming the property of the Verrazzano family in the VII century.
		Verrazzano Castle offers bedrooms and apartments situated in the house "Vignaverde" about 1km far from the Castle.
		The Caste of Verrazzano is exactly in the "heart of the Chianti area", 25 Km far from Florence, 40 Km from Siena and San Gimignano, 60 Km from Volterra.
	www.helloflorence.net /agriturismi/dxverrazzano.htm (221 words)

	Giovanni Da Verrazzano - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Giovanni Da Verrazzano - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Verrazzano, Giovanni da (circa 1480-1527?), Italian navigator, born in Val di Greve, near Florence.
		In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian in the employ of France, became the first white man known to have sailed up the narrows into the lower...
	encarta.msn.com /Giovanni_Da_Verrazzano.html (121 words)

	New France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1604, a settlement was founded at Île-Saint-Croix on Baie François (Bay of Fundy) which was moved to Port-Royal in 1605, only to be abandoned in 1607, reestablished in 1610, and destroyed in 1613, after which settlers moved to other nearby locations.
		In 1608, sponsored by Henry IV of France, Samuel de Champlain founded Québec with six families totalling 28 people, the first successful settlement in what is now Canada.
		The last French governor-general of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, surrendered to British Major General Jeffrey Amherst on September 8 1760.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/New_France (2395 words)

	Stipula - Giovanni da Verrazzano
		Stipula presents a new fountain pen named for Giovanni da Verrazzano, the Florentine navigator and explorer who lived between the 15th and 16th centuries and who, backed by the French king Francis I, made a series of voyages to the Americas.
		The metal details, like the clip with its steel spring, are all in bright finish: the cap top is set with a glowing crystal, symbol of the Polar Star, one of the most ancient instruments for sailing.
		The "Giovanni da Verrazzano" fountain pen is crafted in a limited edition of 1524 pieces, recalling the date of the discovery of New York's bay.
	www.airlineintl.com /stipula/stipula_verrazzano.htm (214 words)

	Tuscan Newsletter about tuscany
		Giovanni da Verrazzano was born in 1485 in the castle of Da Verrazzano's family, on the Chianti hills 19 km away from Florence.
		In the early 1520s the east coast of what is now the United States of America -between Florida (discovered by Spanish) and Newfoundland (Canada, discovered by English and Portuguese explorers) was largely unexplored.
		Verrazzano was the first European to enter New York bay; NYC remembers him with the Verrazzano Bridge, joining Staten Island and Brooklyn at the entrance to New York Harbor.
	www.accommodationintuscany.com /colors/articolo.php?id=11&lingua=eng (278 words)

	Giovanni de Verrazano
		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.
		But James Carson Brevoort, in "Verrazzano, the Navigator" (New York, 1874), maintains the authenticity of the letter, which Henry C. Murphy rejects as spurious in his "Voyage of Verrazzano, a Chapter of the Early Maritime Discoveries in America" (New York, 1875).
		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 (636 words)

	Giovanni Verrazzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1528 Verrazzano was killed by cannibals in the Caribbean.
		In 1614, the Dutch navigator Adriaen Block landed on Verrazzano's island of Luisa and, in a fit of modesty, renamed the island after himself.
		Roger William's people then later thought Verrazzano's reference to an island the size of Rhodes meant Aquidneck (they missed the part about it being ten leagues distant) - hence the mixup.
	www.nuwc.navy.mil /hq/history/0005.html (117 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.
		Upon reaching his majority (also around 1506-7) he moved to Dieppe, to pursue a maritime career.
		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.
	teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/g/gi/giovanni_da_verrazano.html (313 words)

	Verrazano
		The sea along the coast was churned up by enormous waves because of the open beach, and so it was impossible to put anyone ashore without endangering the boat.
		[Editor's footnote: Verrazzano’s** reference to the number of "degrees" in the "chord," etc., is confusing to one who does not understand what he means.
		In plain language, his argument is as follows, using his figures but changing his words: If a great circle, such as the equator, be divided into 36o parts, each part will contain 62 1/2 miles.
	bc.barnard.columbia.edu /~lgordis/earlyAC/documents/verrazan.htm (4868 words)

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