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John Cabot

John Cabot was a devoted explorer that did his work for England. His Italian birth name was Giovanni Caboto, but he moved to many different places and that didn’t last long. Parts of his young adulthood, his voyages of 1497, and 1498 are just about all anyone knows about him.

Cabot was believed born in Genoa in 1455. His father was a merchant and later he followed in his path. In 1461 he was a citizen in Venice. He got married to a woman named Mattea in 1482. They had 3 sons: Ludovico, Sebastiano, and Sancio. Around 1485 he moved to Bristol where all his sailing took p...

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