Something of the kind was allegedly said by Herodote, at a time maps only showed the Mediterranean, and a few unknown seas plus a circular ocean, circling the globe It was not apparent then that water covered 70% of the planet surface. "Perna, Pietro." Z4.A motto well-known by all naval academies around the world: Who dominates the seas rules the world. New York and Bristol: Italica Press, 2019. According to the translator of Contarini's original 1572 Italian edition, "the History is the first comprehensive account of the war and the only one to attempt a concise but comprehensive overview of its course and the Holy League's triumph.Significantly, it is also the only account by an immediate observer."Ĭontarini, Giovanni Pietro. Note that the title is in German.Ĭontarini's History opens with the Ottoman campaign against Cyprus in 1570 and culminates with the Battle of Lepanto. Map of the Battle of Lepanto from Perna's Latin edition. It is unknown who donated the volume to the Naval Academy, which was accessioned into the library's holdings in 1861, almost three hundred years after its publication. In 1802, the see was secularized and incorporated in Bavaria.
The bishops of Eichstätt were princes of the Holy Roman Empire, subject to the spiritual jurisdiction of the archbishops of Mainz, and ruled over considerable territories in the Circle of Franconia (circles were administrative units within the empire). The manuscript note on the title page indicates that the volume was once part of the court library of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt. Title page with manuscript notation indicating this volume was once part of the court library of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt. Vellum binding with simple decoration featuring a central fleuron. Petri Contareni Veneti Historiae De Bello Nvper Venetis A Selimo II Tvrcarvm Imperatore Illato, Liber Vnvs, Ex Italico sermone in latinum conuersus, A Ioan.
His printer’s device bears the motto in Latin, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet.” Among the rare books in Special Collections & Archives is one of Perna's 1573 Latin editions, bound in vellum with simple decoration.įirst page, after the prefatory matter, of Ioan. Perna was an Italian from the Republic of Lucca, who arrived in Basel in 1542 and became the leading printer of the city. In 1573, the printer Pietro Perna (1519-1582) of Basel, Switzerland issued Latin and German translations of Contarini’s work. It is an invaluable source for all subsequent histories of the war between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire. Giovanni Pietro Contarini wrote one of the earliest accounts of Lepanto, published in Venice in 1572 just months after the battle. They had checked the Ottoman advance through the Mediterranean that had begun with the fall of Constantinople in 1453.ĭetail of Andrea Vicentino's Battle of Lepanto in the Ducal Palace, Venice, from Alethea Wiel, The Navy of Venice (New York: E.P. The forces of the Holy League, under the command of Don Juan of Austria, and the Ottoman Empire, under the command of Müezzinzâde Ali Pasha, engaged in a five-hour mêlée that resulted in victory for the Christian powers. Octomarked the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, the greatest naval battle in early modern history and the last major combat between galley fleets. An Early Printed Book on the Battle of Lepanto by Jennifer Bryan on T17:10:31-04:00 in Special Collections & Archives, History | Comments
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