Giovanni da Verrazano


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Noun1.Giovanni da Verrazano - Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528)Giovanni da Verrazano - Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528)
Giovanni da Verrazzano, Verrazano, Verrazzano
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Even the name Acadia reflects cultural syncretism: It is best understood as a combination of the French l'Acadie, a corruption of "Arcadia" (by which name the area was christened in 1524 by explorer Giovanni da Verrazano), and the suffix akadie, or "place of abundance," in the language of the Mikmaq.
Exile without an end: the first ethnic cleansing in American history
"In 1524 the Tuscan explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, sailing for the French crown, was so impressed by the beauty of the North American coast that he christened it 'Arcadia,' after a prose pastorale of the same name published in 1502, a work that popularized the notion of a rural 'golden age' among the ancients," observes Yale University history professor John Mack Faragher in his book A Great And Noble Scheme.
Paradise stolen: two hundred and fifty years ago this September, the Acadians of Nova Scotia, builders of a free and peaceful society, were driven from their land at the point of British bayonets

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