Both Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ) and Giovanni da Verrazzano are reported to have sailed in or near Maritime waters during their voyages of discovery for England and France respectively.

It is named for the Genoese explorer Giovanni Caboto.

The fact that English is the language spoken in the United States can be directly attributed to England's claims in North America, based on the voyages of the Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ).

Gaeta has erected a monument to Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ), who, according to many sources, was born there-though other sources give Genoa or Chioggia.

Indeed, Spain had hired Christoforo Colombo ( Christopher Columbus ), Amerigo Vespucci, England paid Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ), and France called upon Giovanni da Verrazzano.

Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ), a freelance Venetian explorer, was contracted by England ’ s Henry VII to find new lands, and a sea route to the Orient.

Though other individuals with the last name Cabot may descend from Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot, the Italian explorer who came from England in the 1400s ), the prominent Boston Brahmin Cabot family descend from the former.

While first introduced by the Italian states, and the early captains, such as Giovanni Caboto, who were Italian, the development would end Northern Italy ’ s role as the trade crossroads of Europe, shifting wealth and power westards to Spain, Portugal, England, and the Netherlands.

However, Genoese Christopher Columbus and Giovanni Caboto would later destroy the Mediterranean trade by introducing the New World to the market.

The first explorer to North America and to Canada was the Venetian Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ).

His voyage to Canada and other parts of the Americas was followed by his son Sebastiano Caboto and Janus Verrazanus ( Giovanni da Verrazzano ).

Begun in 1898, to commemorate both Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's ( Giovanni Caboto ) voyage to the New World, Cabot Tower was completed in 1900 and has been a part of a number of historic events.

Founded in 1972, it was named after the Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto.

Cristoforo del Altissimo, Cesare Dandini, Aurelio Lomi, John Mosnier, Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Monanni also were his pupils.

He was known to contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole ( Brother John of Fiesole ) and Fra Giovanni Angelico ( Angelic Brother John ).

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

Illustration from The Fall of Princes by John Lydgate ( which is a translation of De Casibus Virorum Illustribus by Giovanni Boccaccio ) depicting " the skyn of Julyan ".

Based on a show by traveling performer Giovanni Piccini, it was illustrated by George Cruikshank and written by John Payne Collier.

* Pope John XXIII, Journal of a Soul (" Giovanni XXIII Il Giornale dell ' Anima ".

Though much of John XXI's brief papacy was dominated by the powerful Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini ( who succeeded him as Pope Nicholas III ), John attempted to launch a crusade for the Holy Land, pushed for a union with the Eastern church, and did what he could to maintain peace between the Christian nations.

* The abbey church of Saint John the Evangelist ( San Giovanni Evangelista ), was originally constructed in the 10th century behind the Cathedral's apse, but had to be rebuilt in 1498 and 1510 after a fire.

" The character of John, a career-driven photographer ( Giovanni Ribisi ) in Coppola's Lost In Translation ( 2003 ), was rumored to be based on Jonze, though Coppola has vehemently denied this.

Of those who took part in the council's opening session, four have become pontiffs to date: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, who on succeeding Pope John XXIII took the name of Paul VI ; Bishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I ; Bishop Karol Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II ; and Father Joseph Ratzinger, present as a theological consultant, who became Pope Benedict XVI.

Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and seven other soldiers ( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies ) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan ( Matt Damon ), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

Steam turbines were also described by the Italian Giovanni Branca ( 1629 ) and John Wilkins in England ( 1648 ).

The small Church dedicated to Saint John ( San Giovanni ), right on the beach

* June 21 – Pope Paul VI ( Giovanni Battista Montini ) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope.

* A History of Ancient Philosophy: The systems of the Hellenistic Age by Giovanni Reale, ( translated by John R. Catan Zeno, the foundation of the Stoa, and the different fases of the Stoicism )

* March 11 – Battle of Castagnaro between the Italian cities of Verona and Padua: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.

Within a period of 112 years, 1497 – 1609, four European explorers claimed this land for their sponsors: John Cabot, 1497, for England ; Giovanni de Verrazano, 1524, for France ; Estevan Gomez, 1525, for Spain, Henry Hudson, 1609, for Holland.

The Italian Giovanni Cabotto ( called John Cabot ) was to lead the voyage.

Sebastian Cabot was born to Giovanni Cabot ( John Cabot ), also an explorer variously credited with Genoese or Gaetan origins, and Mattea.

She suggests that a group of reformed Augustinian friars led by the high ranking Giovanni Antonio de Carbonariis, accompanied Cabot on his second voyage in 1498 to establish a religious community in Newfoundland for the Augustinian order of the Carbonara.

Giovanni Pisano was able to oversee his work until about 1296 when he abruptly left Siena, reportedly over creative differences with the Opera del Duomo

In 1524, the Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano and his crew visited Narragansett Bay.

He visited the Venetian Carnival of 1730, where his opera Artaserse was performed at the S Giovanni Grisostomo.

During the 1790s, Pitești was visited by Luigi Mayer, a German pupil of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who left etchings of the region ( including the very first one of Pitești ); they were published in London in 1810, with legends authored by T. Bowyer, whose caption for Pitești read " nothing more wild or romantic can be conceived ".

The first European contact was in 1524, when the explorer Giovanni de Verrazano visited Narragansett Bay.

She visited Covent Garden again in 1947 with Vienna State Opera Company and sang Salome, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro.

Foggia receives many Catholic pilgrims each year to locations such as the Sanctuary of Saint Michael the Archangel in Monte Sant ' Angelo which was visited by Pope John Paul II in 1987 and to nearby San Giovanni Rotondo the home of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina from 1916 until his death in 1968.

Shortly before Apalachin, Bonanno Family members Joseph Bonanno, Carmine Galante, Frank Garafolo, Giovanni Bonventre and other American Cosa Nostra representatives from Detroit, Buffalo and Montreal visited Palermo, where they held talks with Sicilian Mafiosi staying at the Grand Hotel des Palmes.

According to Giovanni Morelli's suggestion, the artist may have visited Flanders before returning to his native country, and this may account for the Flemish character of his later work.

Giovanni da Verrazzano visited this place in 1524 and named it New Angoulême in honour of his employer the French king Francis I.

He first visited Italy from 1858 until 1860, becoming deeply emotionally attached to fellow painter Giovanni Costa.

Waterford was visited by the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini in 1648.

Giovanni Trapattoni and Marco Tardelli visited Finn Park on 20 July 2012.