Editing Giovanni da Verrazzano (section)

==Later life and death==
[[File:Stemma di Giovanni da Verrazzano Coat of arms.svg|left|thumb|135x135px|Coat of arms of Giovanni da Verrazzano]]
Verrazzano arranged a second voyage, with financial support from [[Jean Ango]] and [[Philippe de Chabot]], which departed from Dieppe with four ships early in 1527. One ship was separated from the others in a gale near the [[Cape Verde Islands]]. Still, Verrazzano reached the coast of Brazil with two ships and harvested a cargo of [[brazilwood]] before returning to Dieppe in September. The third ship returned later, also with a cargo of brazilwood.<ref>{{cite book | last = Morison | first = Samuel Eliot | author-link=Samuel Eliot Morison | title = The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages | url = https://archive.org/details/europeandiscover00moririch | url-access = registration | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1971 | location = New York | page = [https://archive.org/details/europeandiscover00moririch/page/314 314] | isbn = 0-19-215941-0}}</ref>

The partial success did not find the desired passage to the Pacific Ocean, but it inspired Verrazzano's final voyage, which left Dieppe in early 1528.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-da-Verrazzano | title =Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian navigator | date =January 1, 2019 | website =Encyclopaedia Britannica | access-date =January 18, 2019 | quote = His final voyage began in the spring of 1528, when he sailed with his brother, Girolamo, from Dieppe with two or three ships.}}</ref>

There are conflicting accounts of Verrazzano's demise. In one version, during his third voyage to North America in 1528, after he had explored Florida, [[the Bahamas]], and the [[Lesser Antilles]], Verrazzano anchored out to sea and rowed ashore, probably on the island of [[Guadeloupe]]. He was allegedly [[Human cannibalism|killed and eaten]] by the native [[Island Caribs|Caribs]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Wroth | first = Lawrence C. | title = The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524–1528 | publisher = Yale University Press | year = 1970 | location = New Haven | page = [https://archive.org/details/voyagesofgiovann0000wrot/page/237 237] | isbn = 0-300-01207-1 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/voyagesofgiovann0000wrot/page/237 }}</ref> The fleet of two or three ships was anchored out of gunshot range, and no one could respond in time.<ref>{{cite book | last = Morison | first = Samuel Eliot | author-link=Samuel Eliot Morison | title = The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages | url = https://archive.org/details/europeandiscover00moririch | url-access = registration | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1971 | location = New York | page = [https://archive.org/details/europeandiscover00moririch/page/315 315] | isbn = 0-19-215941-0}}</ref>  However, older historical accounts suggest that Verrazzano was the same person as the corsair [[Jean Fleury]], who was executed for piracy by the Spanish at Puerto del Pico, [[Spain]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Murphy | first = Henry Cruse | author-link=Henry Cruse Murphy | title = The Voyage of Verrazzano: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America | url = https://archive.org/details/cu31924028728065 | publisher = Press of J. Munsell| year = 1875 | location = New York | page = [https://archive.org/details/cu31924028728065/page/n168 149]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Chester | first = Alden | title = Courts and lawyers of New York: a history, 1609–1925, Volume 3 | url = https://archive.org/details/courtslawyersofn02ches | publisher = The American Historical Society Inc.| year = 1925 | location = New York | page = 23}}</ref>