[Clemenza]

Italy did not become a country until the mid-19th Century. Columbus was from the Republic of Liguria, and spent much of his adult life in Portugal and then Spain. He sailed for Spain and expanded their Empire.

I’ll stick by my belief that Hudson and even Verrazano deserve to be venerated as the true European explorers of what would become the various colonies of British North America. All poor Verrazano has is a bridge which I hope they don’t tear down or rename.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***All poor Verrazano has is a bridge which I hope they don’t tear down or rename. ***

He went down well with the natives. They ate him.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If Columbus had never sailed the Ocean Blue, the Discovery of the Americas would go to Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500, who, sailing to India, landed in Brazil.