Giovanni da Verrazzano
Explorer, Author
1485 – 1528
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Who was Giovanni da Verrazzano?
Giovanni da Verrazzano was a Florentine explorer of North America, in the service of the King Francis I of France.
He is renowned as the first European since the Norse expeditions to North America around AD 1000 to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay in 1524. The bridge over the opening of New York Harbor and a vessel of the Italian navy, a destroyer of the Navigatori class, are among his numerous eponymous honors.
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