Giovanni da Verrazzano
1491–1528
Florentine explorer of North America for France
explorer
Born in Greve in Chianti
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Giovanni da Verrazzano:
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
- Michelangelo (1475–1564)
- Martin Luther (1483–1546)
- Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
- Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521)
- Raphael (1483–1520)