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to favor local agriculture. Unfortunately the ship was wrecked in the
Mediterranean. Several of these Italian "colonies" were created in the second half of the 19th century, especially in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and in the Southern Region of Brazil. In many of these
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Knights would have complete temporal and spiritual jurisdiction on their islands. The only limits to their rule were that they could only send French knights to govern the
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Nei primi anni del
Seicento Ferdinando I di Toscana ...valuta la possibilità di una colonia brasiliana...Ferdinando fa armare una caravella e una tartana nel porto di Livorno e le affida al capitano Thornton...Thornton naviga per quasi un anno: approda in Guyana e in Brasile, esplora il Rio delle
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By the 17th century, the group of single-story structures known as "Casa de los
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Knights Hospitaller. Because of this rule Malta was considered an "Italian State" (like the Republic of Venice or the Grand Duchy of Tuscany)
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Amazzoni e l'Orinoco, rientra facendo tappa alla
Caienna e a Trinidad. Il 12 luglio 1609 è di nuovo a Livorno, ma...il 7 febbraio di quell'anno il granduca è morto e a Firenze non si pensa più alla possibilità di fondare una colonia...oltreoceano.
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Thornton's galleon 'Santa Lucia' returned to Italy in 1609 with plenty of information (after exploring the area between
Trinidad island and the delta of the Amazon river), some indigenous natives of the Americas and a few tropical parrots.
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Thornton sailed for one year, reaching Guyana and northern Brasil, exploring the Amazon and
Orinoco river but in February of that year the Grand Duke died and in Florence, no one thereafter considered establishing an overseas colony.
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and prepare for the establishment of a settlement in northern coastal South America, which would serve as a base to export Brazilian wood to
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