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In 1564 the Venetian ambassador Leonardo Contarini responded to the Hapsburg Emperor Maximilian, who was preoccupied by the rumours then predicting that the island was to be the victim of a Turkish assault with the famous words 'Venezia fortificherà' ('Venice will fortify its territories').
Two years earlier, in June of 1562 Giulio Savorgnan, a feudal nobleman from |
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Venezia e il mare Le isole, le fortezze, le difese contro i Turchi © 1997 by the VENIVA consortium |