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Giovanni da Verrazzano (/ ˌvɛrəˈzɑːnoʊ, - ətˈsɑː -/ VERR-ə-ZAH-noh, -ət-SAH-, [1][2][3][4] Italian: [dʒoˈvanni da (v)verratˈtsaːno]; often misspelled Verrazano in English; [5] 1485–1528) was an Italian [6] (Florentine) explorer [7][8] of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned as the first ...
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (/ ˌvɛrəˈzɑːnoʊ / VERR-ə-ZAH-noh; also referred to as the Narrows Bridge, the Verrazzano Bridge, and simply the Verrazzano) is a suspension bridge connecting the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn.
Verrazzano’s detailed report of his 1524 voyage was read (in translation) by one or more of Rhode Island’s first settlers, who misinterpreted it. In 1614, Dutch navigator Adrien Block renamed ...
The Castle of Verrazzano is located about a mile from the center of Greve in Chianti in Italy, and sits on a mountain spur above the River Greve. [1] The castle dates back to an Etruscan, and then Roman, settlement. The Verrazzano family held the castle for centuries and the navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano is said to have been born there in ...
Cèllere Codex. The Cèllere Codex (officially, Del Viaggio del Verrazzano Nobile Fiorentino al Servizio di Francesco I, Ri de Francia, fatto nel 1524 all'America Settentrionale, also Morgan MS. MA. 776) [1] is one of three surviving copies of a manuscript originally created in 1524. This manuscript was a letter sent by Giovanni da Verrazzano ...
In 1866 Constantino Brumidi completed the frescoed interior of the United States Capitol dome, and spent the rest of his life executing still other artworks to beautify the Capitol. Italians in the United States before 1880 included a number of explorers, starting with Christopher Columbus, and a few small settlements. [3]
La Dauphine was piloted by Antoine de Conflans [6] and Verrazzano's brother, Girolamo, the only other person aboard whose name is known, served as navigator and cartographer. Verrazzano arrived at the American continent off Cape Fear in early March, briefly sailed south, and then turned north sailing along the Atlantic shore.
The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge is a concrete box girder highway bridge which spans the West Passage of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, United States. It is part of Rhode Island Route 138 and is on the route to Newport, Rhode Island for traffic heading northbound from Interstate 95 .