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Giovanni da Verrazzano

1485 - 1528

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Giovanni da Verrazzano ( VERR-ə-ZAH-noh, -⁠ət-SAH-, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni da (v)verratˈtsaːno], often misspelled Verrazano in English; 1485–1528) was an Italian (Florentine) explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni da Verrazzano has received more than 1,145,163 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Giovanni da Verrazzano is the 46th most popular explorer (down from 42nd in 2019), the 687th most popular biography from Italy (down from 549th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Explorer.

Giovanni da Verrazzano is most famous for being the first European to explore the Atlantic Coast of North America.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 46 out of 405Before him are Hanno the Navigator, Zhang Qian, Ingólfr Arnarson, Sven Hedin, William Baffin, and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. After him are Diego de Almagro, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Jacob Roggeveen, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Richard Francis Burton, and William Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1485, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 5Before him are Hernán Cortés, Catherine of Aragon, Dragut, and Thomas Cromwell. After him are Pedro de Alvarado, Sebastiano del Piombo, Clément Janequin, Joos van Cleve, Johannes Bugenhagen, Wolf Huber, and Sayyida al Hurra. Among people deceased in 1528, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 3Before him are Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald. After him are Georg von Frundsberg, Palma Vecchio, Pánfilo de Narváez, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Clarice de' Medici, Balthasar Hubmaier, Rana Sanga, and Edzard I, Count of East Frisia.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 687 out of 4,668Before him are Britannicus (41), William II of Sicily (1153), John of Capistrano (1386), Virna Lisi (1936), Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360), and Andrew III of Hungary (1265). After him are Michelozzo (1396), Pope Boniface II (470), Pisanello (1395), Quintus Sertorius (-126), Ludovico Einaudi (1955), and Gaius Claudius Glaber (-200).

Among EXPLORERS In Italy

Among explorers born in Italy, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 5Before him are Marco Polo (1254), Christopher Columbus (1451), Amerigo Vespucci (1454), and John Cabot (1450). After him are Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778), Antonio Pigafetta (1492), Sebastian Cabot (1484), Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852), Bartholomew Columbus (1460), Alvise Cadamosto (1432), and Lancelotto Malocello (1270).