(ITALY) Groto Luigi Oratione fatta in Venetia per lallegr

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THE 1571 BATTLE OF LEPANTO (ITALY.) Groto, Luigi. Oratione . . . fatta in Venetia per l'allegrezza della vittoria ottenuta contra Turchi dalla santissima Lega. Illustrated title page. [12] pages. 4to, disbound; minor dampstaining. Venice: Francesco Rocca, 1571

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An oration on the Battle of Lepanto, in which a coalition of Spanish and Italian states defeated the Ottoman Empire in a naval battle off the coast of Greece. With an estimated 30,000 deaths, it was one of the major naval battles in history, and checked a long period of Turkish expansion into the Mediterranean.