Giovanni da Verrazzano, Explorer

Giovanni da Verrazzano was a navigator of Tuscan origin, said to be born either in 1491 (or less likely in 1485), who, between 7 March 1524 (sighting of Cape Fear, North Carolina) and early July 1524 (arrival in Dieppe), led his ship Dauphine in the earliest known European exploration of the Eastern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Codignola, Luca
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Oxford University Press 2023
Subjects:
Canada
Northwest Passage
Rouen
Verrazzano
Newfoundland
Northwest passage
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199730414-0375

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