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The gondola (English: / ˈ ɡ ɒ n d ə l ə /, Italian:; Venetian: góndoła, Venetian: [ˈɡoŋdoɰa]) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon.
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A translation of an extract from G.B. Rubin de Cervin (1985), La flotta di Venezia: Navi e barche della Serenissima [The Venetian Fleet: Ships and Boats of the Venetian Republic], Milan: Automobilia, ISBN 88-85058-63-9. Official website of the Fondazione Bucintoro. Retrieved on 29 February 2008.
The Captain of the Gulf (Venetian: Capitan del Golfo; Italian: Capitano in/del Golfo) was a senior naval command of the Republic of Venice.. The post was established around 1330, when a squadron of ships was set up to patrol the "Gulf of Venice" (as the Adriatic Sea was known to the Venetians) and provide protection for commerce there. [1]
The Venetian navy (Venetian: Armada) was the navy of the Venetian Republic which played an important role in the history of the republic and the Mediterranean world. It was the premier navy in the Mediterranean Sea for many centuries between the medieval and early modern periods, providing Venice with control and influence over trade and ...
This is a list of sailing ships of the Venetian navy. From the Cretan War to the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797, the Venetian Republic maintained a good number of sailing ships for its navy , which formed the so-called Armada Grossa , as opposed to the galley -based Armada Sottile .
Venetian language, a Romance language spoken mostly in the Veneto region; Venice, Florida, a city in Sarasota County, United States; The Venetian Las Vegas, a resort hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada; The Venetian Macao, a hotel and casino in Macau, China; Venetian blind, or Venetian, a common type of window blind similar to Persian blind
A barcarolle is characterized by a rhythm reminiscent of the gondolier's stroke, almost invariably in 6 8 metre at a moderate tempo. [2]While the most-famous barcarolles are from the Romantic period, the genre was known well enough in the 18th century for Burney to mention, in The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771), that it was a celebrated form cherished by "collectors of good ...