Sebastian Cabot was an explorer, born in the Venetian Republic.
Sebastiano Caboto was born to Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot

John Cabot

John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America is commonly held to have been the first European encounter with the continent of North America since the Norse Vikings in the eleventh century...

), also an explorer variously credited with Genoese

Republic of Genoa

The Most Serene Republic of Genoa |Ligurian]]: Repúbrica de Zêna) was an independent state from 1005 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast, as well as Corsica from 1347 to 1768, and numerous other territories throughout the Mediterranean....

 or Gaeta

Gaeta

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n origins, and Mattea. He told Englishman Richard Eden that he was born in Bristol

Bristol

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 and carried to Venice at four years of age; however, he also told Gasparo Contarini

Gasparo Contarini

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, the Venetian ambassador at the court of Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...

 that he was Venetian, educated in England.