1524, A sea route to the Pacific Ocean between Florida and Terranova

Giovanni da Verrazzano, sometimes also incorrectly spelled Verrazano
       [was an Italian Explorer in 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
                                  [another explorer who created a contract in history, an underfinance,
a mortgage because in fact America's discovery,
           [can be seen as a financial event, because at the time Europe was filled with gold
as the Spanish galleys were coming back from the New World over-loaded
                      [with the precious metal and...much remorse, as the stories have been told.

A year before the King asked Verrazzao to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
                                             [between Florida and Terranova, the "New Found Land".

On the one hand, his mission failed because there was no such passage, 

                [but the world's history remembers him of his boldness, on the other hand.

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to be continued

* ''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis -CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS //
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Verrazzano's statue in the town of Greve in Chianti, Italy

* Verrazzano's voyage in 1524 Continuing to explore the coast further northwards, Verrazzano and his crew came into contact with Native Americans living on the coast. 

However, he did not notice the entrances to Chesapeake Bay or the mouth of the Delaware River. In New York Bay, he encountered the Lenape and observed what he deemed to be a large lake, which was in fact the entrance to the Hudson River. 
He then sailed along Long Island and entered Narragansett Bay, where he received a delegation of Wampanoag and Narragansett people. The words "Norman villa" are found on the 1527 map by Visconte Maggiolo identifying the site. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison writes, "this occurs at Angouleme (New York) rather than Refugio (Newport). It was probably intended to compliment one of Verrazzano's noble friends. There are several places called 'Normanville' in Normandy, France. The main one is located near Fécamp and another important one near Evreux, which would naturally be it. West of it, conjecturally on the Delaware or New Jersey coast, is a Longa Villa, which Verrazzano certainly named after François d'Orleans, duc de Longueville".
He stayed there for two weeks and then moved northwards. He discovered Cape Cod Bay, his claim proved by a map of 1529 which clearly outlined Cape Cod.
He then followed the coast up to modern Maine, southeastern Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, after which he returned to France by 8 July 1524. Verrazzano named the region that he explored Francesca in honor of the French king, but his brother's map labels it Nova Gallia (New France).
Verrazzano arranged a second voyage, with financial support from Jean Ango and Philippe de Chabot, which departed from Dieppe with four ships early in 1527. One ship was separated from the others in a gale near the Cape Verde Islands, but Verrazzano reached the coast of Brazil with two ships and harvested a cargo of brazilwood before returning to Dieppe in September. The third ship returned later, also with a cargo of brazilwood.
This partial success did not find the desired passage to the Pacific Ocean, but it inspired Verrazzano's final voyage, which left Dieppe early in 1528.

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