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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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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.
Obras trágicas y liricas (1609). Cristóbal de Virués (c. 1550–1614) was a Spanish dramatist and poet.. He was born at Valencia about the middle of the 16th century, joined the army, fought at Lepanto, and retired to his birthplace with the rank of captain shortly before 1586.
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Battle of Lepanto. The War of Cyprus became the focus of Spanish attention after Pope Pius V sent an envoy to urge Philip to join him and Venice in a Holy League against the Turks. Philip II agreed, and negotiations opened in Rome. Among Philip's terms was the appointment of John as commander-in-chief of the Holy League armada.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... was a Spanish soldier. She famously participated in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 dressed as a man. [1]
The Chesterton Review is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University.It was established in 1974 to promote an interest in all aspects of G. K. Chesterton's life, work, art, and ideas, including his Christian apologetics.