During his early 16th century voyages to the North America who was by then still regarded as unexplored part of Asia he mapped the coast between Cape Fear, Carolinas all up to Newfoundland, founding New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay. By all historical accounts, he was born in or around Florence, Italy, and he regarded himself as Florentine during the rest of his life.
In early 16th century he started his life on the sea as deckhand, navigator and soon explorer with the several missions who went to the shores of the North America, more specifically Newfoundland. I forgot my password. Why sign up? Create Account. Suggest an Edit. Enter your suggested edit s to this article in the form field below. Accessed 13 November In The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Historica Canada. From Cape Fear, he sailed north, making two or more landings between there and Cape Hatteras, visiting with the natives, whom he found friendly, and examining the flora and fauna of the land. Observing Pamlico Sound, he determined that this was not Asia but a new land, and the sound was the Pacific Ocean.
On his return, he found the king preparing for war in Italy and his other backers unimpressed with the plants and mineral samples he brought.
He thus was left without backers for a second venture. Finally, in he persuaded Jean Ango and a high French nobleman to support him and he set forth again. This venture, beset with storms and mutiny, failed to reach North America, sailing instead to Brazil, and returned with a cargo of "Brazil wood," valued for making dye. In the spring of he sailed a third time for the New World. Taking a more southerly course, he made landfall in the Lesser Antilles.
Mistaking the natives to be friendly as they had been in Carolina, he went ashore and was killed by the hostile Carib Indians. During his North American voyage of , Verrazano compiled a description of the lands and people he found and drew a map of the coastline. The account of the voyage was sent by him in a letter to Francis I, a copy of which was later obtained and translated into English by Richard Hakluyt. A copy of his map was given to King Henry VIII of England, apparently during the time the navigator was searching for a backer for his second voyage.
This later came into the possession of John Lok, a London merchant, who like Hakluyt, was among the foremost proponents of English western expansion. His country of origin was Italy, but he sailed for the French. Giovanni da Verrazzano Fact 4. Where was Giovanni da Verrazzano born? He was born at Val di Greve, near Florence, Italy into the Italian nobility and was well educated in cartography, navigation, astronomy, mathematics and seamanship. Giovanni da Verrazzano Fact 5.
In , he settled in the port of Dieppe, France, where some of the best map makers of the Renaissance period were based, and began his career as a navigator. Giovanni da Verrazzano Fact 6. Through to his excellent connections with the Italian court, he was introduced to the court of France. Giovanni da Verrazzano Fact 7. Giovanni da Verrazzano was engaged by King Francis I of France as a privateer, attacking ships belonging to the Portuguese and Spanish.
Giovanni da Verrazzano Fact 8. During his period as a privateer or pirate , in , Giovanni da Verrazzano captured a Spanish treasure ship laden with gold.
Giovanni da Verrazzano Fact 9. The value of gold on the treasure ship was equivalent to two million dollars.
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