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[edit] Nationality

• From Gaeta, please. If it can be disputed, however, I never heard I came from Genoa. --Attilios 15:32, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• Cabot was not italian, Italy was created four hundreds years after he was born.

Try to be more helpful. What was "Italy" called in Cabot's day? - Adrian Pingstone 21:40, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

• I don't see any sources that claim he called himself Italian. He did come from what we now know as Italy, but he would never have called himself an Italian. We do have a source that says he was Venetian. Why the change from Venetian to Italian? Benkenobi18 21:21, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Italy didn't exist at the time, of course; but, would you call Hegel, Fichte or Kant Baden-Wurttemburgish, Saxon (why not Lusatian!!!) or Prussian philosophers, respectively, for the same reason? "Nationality" is a broader meaning than mere anagraphic registration. --Attilios (talk) 22:53, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

• Definitely, he WAS not born in Venice. Where else, is disputed. Castiglione Chiavarese and Gaeta are the two disputed places I found in sources. --Attilios (talk) 22:53, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

• What is wrong with Italian? It wasn't a political region, but it was a geographic region. It was commonly referred to as Italy. Think of terms like Italian Renaissance, Italian Papacy, Italian city-states. The language spoken was Italian after all. Was George Washington not an American until the Declaration of Independence?

Malachi is survivin (talk) 23:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC)