Giovanni da Verrazzano

Giovanni da Verrazzano
(AKA da Verazzano & da Verrazano )

Biography, Timeline & Facts about the famous explorer, explorations & voyages in the Age of Exploration

Short Biography of the life of Giovanni da Verrazzano - Italian Explorer and Navigator
The following biography information provides basic facts about the life Giovanni da Verrazzano:

• Nationality - Italian who sailed for France

• Lifespan - 1485 - 1528

• Family - Noble Italian family

• Education - Well educated befitting the status of his family

• Career - Italian Explorer and Navigator

• Famous for : Exploring the northeast coast of North America from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Maine

• He also discovered Manhattan and was the first European to enter New York bay

Facts, Timeline & History about the life of Giovanni da Verrazzano - Italian Explorer and Navigator
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• 1485: Giovanni da Verrazzano was born in at Val di Greve, near Florence, Italy

• Giovanni da Verrazzano came from a good Italian family and was a well educated Renaissance man

• Giovanni da Verrazzano travelled the seas as a pirate, or Privateer sailing for King Francis I of France, attacking ships belonging to the Spanish and the Portuguese

• 1522: Giovanni da Verrazzano captured a Spanish treasure ship sent from Mexico, by Hernando Cortes, to King Charles V of Spain. The value of gold on the treasure ship was valued at nearly two million dollars

• 1524 January: Giovanni da Verrazzano was commissioned by Francis I to command a voyage of discovery to the New World

• His ship was called La Dauphine

• Giovanni da Verrazzano explored the  coast of North America - Cape Fear, New York Bay, the North Carolina coast, Maine and Nova Scotia

• He also discovered a "beautiful" harbor naming it Angouleme - it would later be called Manhattan. He set anchor in the the straight between Staten Island and Long Island, where he received a canoe party of Lenape

• Giovanni da Verrazzano returned to Dieppe in France to report his findings

• He made two more trips to the New World, including a voyage to Brazil

• 1527: Giovanni da Verrazzano was apparently captured by his old enemy - the Spanish

• 1527: Giovanni da Verrazzano was reportedly executed at Puerto del Pico, Spain in November, 1527 for Piracy

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