For 10 points, name this Italian explorer whose voyages laid the foundation for Britain's control of Canada.
Diplomat Raimondo de Soncino reported this man's boasts that his country would soon have "no more need of Iceland," and that he had traveled to the Isle of the Seven Cities. Historian Evan Jones extended research on this man left unpublished at the death of Alwyn Ruddock. J.A. Williamson wrote the definitive history of this man's career, published by the Hakluyt [HACK-lit] Society. An enterprise of his is documented in a letter to a merchant named John Day sent before this man is believed to have died at sea. This man sailed from (*) Bristol on the Matthew in a 1497 expedition commissioned by Henry VII, becoming the first European since the Vikings to explore the coast of Newfoundland. For 10 points, name this Italian explorer whose voyages laid the foundation for Britain's control of Canada.
Diplomat Raimondo de Soncino reported this man's boasts that his country would soon have "no more need of Iceland," and that he had traveled to the Isle of the Seven Cities.
John Cabot [or Giovanni Caboto; or Zuan Cabotto] 