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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Christopher Columbus, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Amerigo Vespucci, Marco Polo, Alessandro Malaspina, Giosafat Barbaro, John Cabot, Umberto Nobile, Carlo Amoretti, Antonio de Noli, Eusebio Kino, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Odoric of Pordenone, Niccolo de' Conti, Sebastian Cabot, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Alvise Cadamosto, Pietro Della Valle, Ludovico di Varthema, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Ardito Desio, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Giacomo Beltrami, Giovanni de' Marignolli, Pellegrino Matteucci, Antonio Pigafetta, Luigi D'Albertis, Henri de Tonti, Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi, Pinta, Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona, Francesco della Penna, Juan Bautista Pastene, Vittorio Bottego, Bartholomew Columbus, Isol the Pisan, Alberto Maria De Agostini, Ugolino de Vivaldo, Romolo Gessi, Leonardo Fea, Carlo Mauri, Lancelotto Malocello, Orazio Antinori, Giuseppe Maria Giulietti, Alphonse de Tonty, Attilio Gatti, Giuseppe Ferlini, Bernardino Drovetti, Andrea Corsali, Giuseppe Acerbi, List of Italian explorers, Leon Pancaldo, Nicoloso da Recco, Luca Tarigo. Excerpt: Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 - 20 May 1506) was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements in the island of Hispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish colonization, which foreshadowed the general European colonization of the "New World." In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus'...
