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A gondola ride. 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.
The following is a list of all 120 of the Doges of Venice ordered by the dates of their reigns.. For more than 1,000 years, the chief magistrate and leader of the city of Venice and later of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was styled the Doge, a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux.
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]
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 .
John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto [dʒoˈvanni kaˈbɔːto]; c. 1450 – c. 1499) [2] was an Italian [2] [3] navigator and explorer.His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
The Execution of Marino Faliero, by Eugène Delacroix (1827, Wallace Collection). Coat of arms of Marino Faliero. Faliero was the son of Iacopo Marin and Beriola Loredan. He had an uncle of the same name with whom he is often confused.
Europa was a first-rank ship of the line of the Venetian navy, serving from 1739 to 1764.. Europa belonged to the third and final batch of the San Lorenzo Zustinian class, representing the largest vessels of the Venetian navy, with some 50 metres (160 ft) total length, a displacement of c. 2000 tons, and armed with 66 cannon (28 × 40-pounders, 28 × 20-pounders, 10 × 14-pounders). [1]
A sopracomito (plural sopracomiti) was the captain of a galley in the Venetian navy. [a] Elected from among those among the Venetian patriciate who already had some naval experience, the sopracomito was an important position and stepping-stone in the naval cursus honorum of the Republic of Venice. It entailed considerable responsibilities for ...