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Painting of the Battle of Lepanto. Unknown artist, after a print by Martin Rota, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London "Lepanto" is a poem by G. K. Chesterton celebrating the victory of the Holy League in the Battle of Lepanto (1571) written in irregular stanzas of rhyming, roughly paeonic tetrameter couplets, often ending in a quatrain of four dimeter lines.
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Lepanto, a poem by English poet G. K. Chesterton about the 1571 Battle of Lepanto Lepanto opening , in the board game Diplomacy Battle of Lepanto , a naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
The most popular British poem on the subject was The Lepanto by King James VI of Scotland. Written in fourteeners about 1585, its thousand lines were ultimately collected in His Maiesties Poeticall Exercises at Vacant Houres (1591), [77] then published separately in 1603 after James had become king of England too.
The Victors of Lepanto (from left: Don Juan de Austria, Marcantonio Colonna, Sebastiano Venier) The Venetians repaired their galley fleet and readied six armed galleasses. The pope hired twelve galleys from the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The dukes of Savoy and Parma also provided galleys, and Alexander Farnese sailed in one of them.
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The Battle of Lepanto was fought in 1571 and resulted in the Holy League's victory over the Ottoman fleet. There are many paintings titled The Battle of Lepanto, including: The Battle of Lepanto (Luna painting) (1887), by Filipino painter and revolutionary Juan Luna; Other works: "Lepanto," a 1911 poem by G. K. Chesterton
A complete listing and criticism of all English translations of at least one of the three cantiche (parts) was made by Cunningham in 1966. [12] The table below summarises Cunningham's data with additions between 1966 and the present, many of which are taken from the Dante Society of America's yearly North American bibliography [13] and Società Dantesca Italiana [] 's international ...