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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Oxford University Press
2023
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199730414-0375 |