List of Italian explorers
Christopher Columbus
(
Italian
:
Cristoforo Colombo
), Italian explorer who opened the way for the widespread European
exploration
and
colonization
of the Americas
Amerigo Vespucci
, Italian explorer from whose name the term "
America
" is derived
[
1
]
This is
list of Italian
[
2
]
explorers and navigators
(
Italian
:
esploratori
) in alphabetical order:
This is a
dynamic list
and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by
adding missing items
with
reliable sources
.
Giuseppe Acerbi
(1773–1846)
Enrico Alberto d'Albertis
(1846–1932)
Carlo Amoretti
(1741–1816)
Paolo Andreani
(1763–1823)
Orazio Antinori
(1811–1882)
Alberto Maria de Agostini
(1883–1960)
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
^
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.