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Celebrating the
End of the Plague Where to See
More deadly than any Maritime Venice
opposing army, plague hit
Venice in 1575 and again in The triumph of Venice over
1630, carrying off Titian the sea is celebrated in the
among its 100,000 victims. Museo Storico Navale (p122).
For a glimpse of the extensive
and disused Arsenale shipyard
in Castello, take a trip on
vaporetto route No. 4.1, 4.2,
5.1 or 5.2 (p284).

The Venice Arsenale
Venice was at the forefront
of maritime construction.
Her heavily defended
shipyards were capable
of turning out warships
at the rate of one a day.

To synchronize
the oarsmen, a Arsenale lions, plundered
drummer beat from Piraeus in 1687, guard the
time at the stern. forbidding gates of the Arsenale
shipyard (p123).

Venetian Trireme
The trireme was so Venetian naval supremacy was
named because the based on the swift and highly
oars were grouped in manoeuvrable trireme, used to Santa Maria della Salute
threes. Each trireme sink enemy ships by means of its was built in thanksgiving
had up to 150 oars. pointed battering ram and its for deliverance from the
bow-mounted cannon. 1630 plague (p139).

1592 Galileo Monteverdi 1718 Venetian
appointed (1567–1643) 1678 Elena Piscopia receives 1703 Vivaldi maritime empire
professor of doctorate from Padua University, the joins La Pietà as ends with the
mathematics at first woman in the world ever to be musical director surrender of
Padua University awarded a degree (p182) Morea to the Turks
1600 1650 1700
Elena Piscopia
1613 Monteverdi (1646–84) 1708 In a bitter
appointed 1630 Plague strikes Venice 1669 Venice winter, the lagoon
choirmaster at again, reducing the city’s loses Crete to freezes over and
Basilica San Marco population to 102,243, its the Turks Venetians can walk
smallest for 250 years to the mainland

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