Italians - Captains for Other Countries' Kings or ... (I'm 12)

Everybody knows that the first Spanish vessels to reach the New World were commanded by the Italian Christoforo Colombo (no relation to Peter Falk). But what about other nations? The first English vessels to reach the New World were commanded by the Italian Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), and the first French vessels were commanded by the Italian Giovanni da Verrazano.