List of Italian explorers
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This is list of Italian[2] explorers and navigators (Italian: esploratori) in alphabetical order:
- Giuseppe Acerbi (1773–1846)
- Enrico Alberto d'Albertis (1846–1932)
- Carlo Amoretti (1741–1816)
- Paolo Andreani (1763–1823)
- Orazio Antinori (1811–1882)
- Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494)
- Giacomo Beltrami (1779–1855)
- Scipione Borghese (1871–1927)
- Vittorio Bottego (1860–1897)
- Giacomo Bove (1852–1887)
- Sebastiano Caboto (1474–1557)
- Umberto Cagni (1863–1932)
- Giovanni Caboto (1450–1500)
- Alvise Cadamosto (1432–1483)
- Gaetano Casati (1838–1902)
- Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766)
- Cristoforo Colombo (1451–1506)
- Ambrogio Contarini (1429–1499)
- Niccolò de' Conti (1395–1469)
- Andrea Corsali (1487–?)
- Antonio da Noli (1418–1496)
- Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (1185–1252)
- Ardito Desio (1897–2001)
- Alfonso de Tonti (1659–1727)
- Enrico de Tonti (1649–1704)
- Andrea Doria (1466–1560)
- Eusebio Kino (1645–1711)
- Alessandro Malaspina (1754–1810)
- Lancelotto Malocello (1269–1335)
- Reinhold Messner (born 1944)
- Umberto Nobile (1885–1978)
- Antonio Pigafetta (1491–1530)
- Emanuele Piloti
- Marco Polo (c. 1253–1323)
- Niccolò and Maffeo Polo (c. 1230 – c. 1294, c. 1230 – c. 1309)
- Michele Pontrandolfo (born 1971)
- Matteo Ricci (1552–1610)
- Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933)
- Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà (1852–1905)
- Giovanni da Verrazzano (1484–1527)
- Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512)
- Ugolino Vivaldi (fl. 1291)
- Vadino Vivaldi (fl. 1291)
- Fiorenza Cannavale
Notes
- ^ Szalay, Jessie. Amerigo Vespuggi: Facts, Biography & Naming of America (citing Erika Cosme of Mariners Museum & Park, Newport News VA). 20 September 2017 (accessed 23 June 2019)
- ^ Though the modern state of Italy was established in 1861, the Latin equivalent of the term Italian had been in use for natives of the region since antiquity. See Pliny the Elder, Letters 9.23.
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