Giovanni da Verrazzano Giovanni da Verrazzano (also spelled Giovanni da Verrazano) explored the east coast of what is now the United States in 1525. He is best known for being the discoverer of New York Harbor and for mistaking Pamlico Sound for the Pacific The east coast of what is now known of the United States of America was largely unexplored in the early 1520s. The Spanish had discovered ...

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Giovanni Da Verrazzano Giovanni da Verrazzano (also spelled Verrazano) was born in Tuscany, Italy in 1485 and died in 1528 in the Lesser Antilles. He was a Florentine explorer sailing under the French flag. He was the first European to sight New York and Narragansett bays. While growing up in Florence, Verrazzano received an excellent education. Later he moved to Dieppe in France and entered the ...