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Coat of arms of Giovanni da Verrazzano. Verrazzano arranged a second voyage, with financial support from Jean Ango and Philippe de Chabot, which departed from Dieppe with four ships early in 1527. One ship was separated from the others in a gale near the Cape Verde Islands.
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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.
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 ...
In 1524 the Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni da (v)verratˈtsaːno]) was the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524. [15] The geographic information derived from this voyage significantly influenced 16th-century cartographers. [16]
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.
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