- A Milanese Friar wrote about North America (Markland) in c. 1340, giving evidence that word of the New World had circulated through Europe before Columbus https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2021.1943792 11 comments history
- A document written by a Milanese friar, dated to around 1345, has been found to contain what looks like a reference to the Atlantic coast of North America – suggesting Italian sailors were already aware of the continent some 150 years before Christopher Columbus set sail for it. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00822884.2021.1943792 338 comments science
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- Italian sailors knew of America 150 years bef | EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/931035 1108 comments
- Già nel Trecento c'erano italiani che sapevano dell'esistenza dell'America - Il Post https://www.ilpost.it/2023/01/17/marckalada-galvano-fiamma-paolo-chiesa-america/ 114 comments
- Vikings were in the Americas exactly a thousand years ago | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/world/vikings-arrival-americas-scn/index.html 41 comments
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