* In 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered the United States of America's east coast.

Alfonso fled to Castel Nuovo, but the help of a fleet of 22 galleys led by Giovanni da Cardona improved his situation.

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* 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

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.

Guidobaldo da Montefeltro and Giovanni Maria da Varano returned to Urbino and Camerino, and Fossombrone revolted.

The most highly sought ( and expensive ) instruments come from Italy and include basses made by Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Gaspar da Salo, the Testore family ( Carlo Antonio, Carlo Giuseppe, Gennaro, Giovanni, Paulo Antonio ), Celestino Puolotti, and Matteo Gofriller.

* Giovanni da Verrazzano Battery Park, Manhattan, New York, 1909

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

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 3 February 1525 or 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594 ) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.

* Article " Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da ", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed.

* Della Sciucca, Marco, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

* Lewis Lockwood, Noel O ' Regan, Jessie Ann Owens: " Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da ".

His early influences included Paolo da Perugia ( a curator and author of a collection of myths, the Collectiones ), the humanists Barbato da Sulmona and Giovanni Barrili, and the theologian Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro.

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* 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.

The relationship between the two forms is most obvious in the composers who concentrated on sacred music, especially Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose " motets " setting texts from the Canticum Canticorum, the biblical " Song of Solomon ," are among the most lush and madrigal-like of Palestrina's compositions, while his " madrigals " that set poems of Petrarch in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary would not be out of place in church.

* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

** Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter ( b. 1487 )

** Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter ( d. 1564 )

At the Villa Madama, in the garden facing the loggia, the Elephant Fountain designed by Giovanni da Udine depicts " Annone ", whose tomb was designed by Raphael himself.

Other noteworthy monuments in the square are the Fountain by Giovanni Carrara, an architect from Bergamo ( 1542 ); the Columns bearing the Venetian Lion and the Statue of Justice ( 1614 ), the statues of Hercules and Cacus and the Statue of Peace ( 1819 ) which was donated to Udine by Emperor Francis I to commemorate the peace Treaty of Campoformido.

The current Renaissance appearance dates from the intervention of Giovanni da Udine, who finished the works starting from 1547.

The city has a theater, the Teatro Giovanni da Udine.

* Giovanni da Udine, painter ( Renaissance )

Giovanni Martini da Udine, a High Renaissance architect who worked in Rome and pupil of Raphael.

The decorations are by Giulio Romano and Baldassare Peruzzi, both prime architects in their own right ; Giovanni da Udine did stucco bas-reliefs imitating work found in Nero's recently-rediscovered Domus Aurea ; Giovan Francesco Penni (" il Fattore ") and the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli worked there too.

In the garden facing the loggia, the Elephant Fountain, designed by Giovanni da Udine, commemorates the Indian elephant " Annone ", brought to Rome by a Portuguese ambassador for the consecration of Leo X in 1514.

* Cima da Conegliano or Giovanni Martini da Udine ( Coronation of the Virgin in the south transept )

* San Giovanni al Natisone, in the Province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia

After the elevation of Giulio de ' Medici to the pontificate, the office of the piombo ( or leaden seal ) that is, the office of sealer of briefs of the apostolic chamber became vacant ; two painters competed for it, Sebastiano Luciani, hitherto a comparatively poor man, and Giovanni da Udine.

He may have met Giovanni da Udine.

Giovanni Nanni, also Giovanni de ' Ricamatori, better known as Giovanni da Udine ( 1487 – 1564 ), was an Italian painter and architect born in Udine.

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Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

Papal troops had invaded the Neapolitan kingdom, but Alfonso corrupted the cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi, who commanded them, and his successes waned.

Giovanni Sforza came with a reduced corps, as troops sent by Eugene IV had halted his father Francesco in the Marche.

He founded the Academy of Naples under Giovanni Pontano and, for his entrance in the city in 1443, had a magnificent triumphal arch added to the main gate of Castel Nuovo.

This was an order that had been founded by Giovanni Scarpa at the end of the 15th century.

Nineteenth-century travellers could point to the Hill of San Giovanni on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Ajaccio, which still had a cathedral said to have been the 6th century seat of the Bishop of Ajaccio.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Pietro was in France on business when Francis was born, and Pica had him baptised as Giovanni di Bernardone.

The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

After received the support of the archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Visconti, and of those of Pisa, Florence and Siena, he started a campaign against Giovanni di Vico, lord of Viterbo, who had usurped much of the Papal territories in the Latium and Umbria.

His sojourn there was to be short, however, as Giovanni di Vico and Francesco Ordelaffi ( who had hired the famous condottiero Konrad von Landau's " Grand Company ") were menacing the fragile balance of his last conquests.

Polo was finally released from captivity in August 1299, and returned home to Venice, where his father and uncle had purchased a large house in the central quarter named contrada San Giovanni Crisostomo.

Giovanni Faber coined the name microscope for Galileo Galilei's compound microscope in 1625 ( Galileo had called it the " occhiolino " or " little eye ").

A similar list had been published in 1654 by Giovanni Hodierna, but had no impact and was probably not known to Messier.

Giovanni Boccaccio's makes this comparison in his literary commentary of the Commedia, he states, " When he had grown up and become a most ferocious animal, and of incredible strength, they tell that Minos had him shut up in a prison called the labyrinth, and that he had sent to him there all those whom he wanted to die a cruel death ".

In the fifteenth century, however, Giovanni Fontana, a Venetian engineer, had already created a lantern that projected an image of a demon.

The most distinguished of his sons was however Giovanni Gaetano ( died 1280 ): elected pope as Nicholas III, he named the nephew Bertoldo ( died 1289 ) as count of Romagna and had two nephews and a brother created cardinals.

Collier said his script was based on the version performed by the " professor " Giovanni Piccini in the early 19th century, and Piccini himself had begun performing in the streets of London in the late 18th century.

The tomb had been opened previously in 1873 by Professor Giovanni Canestrini, also of Padua University.

Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop of one of the most ancient and prominent sees in Italy, he had not yet been made a cardinal.