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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Florentine explorer of North America for France "Verrazzano" redirects here. For other uses, see Verrazano (disambiguation). Giovanni da Verrazzano Born 1485 Val di Greve, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy) Died 1528 (aged 42–43) Unclear; possibly Guadeloupe (uncolonized ...
This year marks the 500th anniversary of Giovanni da Verrazzano’s historic voyage to the New World and the first documented visit by a European to Rhode Island. This fact should not go unnoticed.
In 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed for King Francis I of France, and is known as the first European since the Norse to explore the Atlantic coast of North America. Arriving near the Cape Fear River delta, he explored the coastlines of present-day states of North and South Carolina , entering the Pamlico Sound , and ...
Girolamo de Verrazzano's 1529 map of his brother Giovanni's 1524 voyage along the East Coast of America. Verrazzano's fellow Italian, Christopher Columbus, [note 2] in the service of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, had reached the New World in 1492, and over the next thirty years, three European nations — the English, Portuguese and Spanish —investigated the new continent, claiming land ...
The span is named for Giovanni da Verrazzano, who in 1524 was the first European explorer to enter New York Harbor and the Hudson River. Engineer David B. Steinman proposed a bridge across the Narrows in the late 1920s, but plans were deferred over the next twenty years.
La Dauphine (Fr. "The [feminine] Dolphin", term used for the wife of the crown prince) was a three-masted sailing vessel that served as the flagship of the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano on his first voyage to the New World while seeking a shipping passage to China from Europe.
In 1525, Giovanni da Verrazzano, fresh off a 'very successful' French-sponsored expedition to North America the year prior, appeared before Henry VIII's court seeking the sovereign's patronage, and presenting him with a map and globe depicting his discoveries, thereby giving the court access to 'one of the earliest, most accurate representations of North America.' [1] [n 1] The Verrazzano map ...
Cape Cod is described in a letter from the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano to Francis I of France, relating the details of a voyage to the New World made on behalf of the French crown in the ship Dauphine, the only surviving of a fleet of four. [3] Sailing from Madeira in 1524, the Dauphine made land in North Carolina in March. It ...