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Corfù in Venetian Mediterranean politics II |
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After the end of the war with Candia and the final loss of the island,
Corfù served not only as an important strategic and commercial
junction, but came to stand for a symbolic continuity in the maritime power of
the Serenissima .
The period stretching from the second half of the
seventeenth century to the 1720s was marked by an attempt at a radical
reformation of the defensive structure of the island. Filippo Verneda was the
first to embark upon this project soon after the war for Candia. His studies
and projects would be taken up - at the conclusion of the final conflict
between Venetians and Ottomans - by Marshall Johann Maria von Schulemburg,
General Captain of the Venetian militia .
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Venezia e il mare
Le isole, le fortezze, le difese contro i Turchi
© 1997 by the VENIVA consortium
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