Who discovered the New World? The canonical answer is, of course, Christopher Columbus, but many among you probably already know that there are other interesting theories: some historians believe that the Vikings had already reached the northern part of the American continent in the early Middle Ages, while some more recent archaeological discoveries hinted at the possibility that the Ancient Romans had been, in fact, the first to sail through the Atlantic, more than one thousand years before good old Christopher.

Lesser known is, perhaps, the theory according to which it was two Venetian brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zen who, moved by a thirst for knowledge and discovery only comparable to that of Ulysses, reached America a century before Columbus, in the 1390s.