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Verranzzano was born in 1485 in Tuscany Italy.
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Verrazzano went to school in Florence and then a centre of geographic and navigational science.
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Verranzzano first went to the coast of America in 1506 with Thomas Aubert on a ship called La Pensée and he explored the region of Newfoundland.
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Verranzzano First sailed to Cape fear then New york Bay and after that Naragansset Bay and so fourth.
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In 1522 Verrazzano found gold that was worth over 2 million dollars and that was a lot of money in that time.
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In 1527 just a year before he died he was captured by his old enemy from the spanish.
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Verrazzano arranged a second voyage, which departed from Dieppe with four ships early in 1527, Verrazzano reached the coast of Brazil with two ships, during his third voyage to North America in 1528, after he had explored Florida, the Bahamas, and the Lesser Antilles, He was killed and eaten by the native Caribs. -
Verrazzano died in 1528, in Lesser Antilles
