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ELI5 Why didn't Italy ever colonise the New World?

With all the important early expeditions organised by Italian explorers (Columbus, John Cabot, Vespucci, Giovanni da Verrazano etc.), how come Italy itself never established a single long-term colony in basically a whole planetary hemisphere named for an Italian? Even the Dutch had an American empire.
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During the Age of Discovery, Italy was not a country, but rather a collection of city states.  England, Portugal, France, Spain, and the Netherlands were large strong nations that could pay for, and support exploration and then the subsequent colonization.  During this time, the Italian states were fighting one another quite heavily and were not in a real position to explore and colonize.  That's why all the Italian explorers went to foreign powers to support their journeys.