This was how the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano described the outcome ... he soon departed again for Europe. The enduring legacy of the brief adventure was a narrative written to Francis I, the ...

Photograph by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on ... and the “discovery” of the Brazilian coast in 1500 by compatriot Pedro Álvares Cabral ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano ... he soon departed again for Europe. The enduring legacy of the brief adventure ...