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Title

Ships & guns : the sea ordnance in Venice and Europe between the 15th and the 17th centuries / edited by Carlo Beltrame and Renato Gianni Ridella.

Publication

Oxford ; Oakville [Conn.] : Oxbow Books, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Beltrame, Carlo.
• Ridella, Renato Gianni.
• Università degli studi di Venezia. Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità e del Vicino Oriente.

Description

xii, 132 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Alternative Title

Ships and guns

Subject

• Ordnance, Naval > Venice > History > Congresses
• Ordnance, Naval > Europe > History > Congresses
• Underwater archaeology > Venice > Congresses
• Underwater archaeology > Europe > Congresses
• Archaeology and history > Venice > Congresses
• Archaeology and history > Europe > Congresses
• Venice (Italy) > History, Naval > Congresses
• Europe > History, Naval > Congresses
• Venice (Italy) > Antiquities > Congresses
• Europe > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History
• Naval history

Note

• Most of the papers presented to the international symposium "Ships and Guns," organized by the Dept. of Sciences of the Antiquity and the Near East, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, held Dec. 11-12, 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Ships, guns, and historical archaeology / Sauro Gelichi and Mauro Librenti -- Venetian guns for and from the sea. Morphology and constructive techniques of Venetian artilleries in the sixteenth and seventeenth century : some notes / Marco Morin -- Venetian ordnance in the shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seas / Carlo Beltrame -- The race to big calibres during the first war of Morea and Sigismondo Alberghetti's guns of new invention / Guido Candiani -- Two Venetian swivel guns from Messina Strait, Italy / Rossella Scordato -- A Venetian ship sunk in Cyrenaica at the beginning of the 18th century / Sebastiano Tusa -- Italian production of naval ordnance between the 15th and 17th centuries. Genoese ordnance aboard galleys and merchantmen in the 16th century / Renato Gianni Ridella -- Bombards in Savona in the 15th and 16th centuries / Furio Ciciliot -- Guns and profit : Tuscan naval artillery in the 16th to 17th centuries / Niccolò Capponi -- Armed ships of the post-medieval period in Croatia / Irena Radić Rossi -- European ordnance aboard the ships (15th-17th centuries). Did naval artillery really exist during the modern period? : a brief note on cannon design / Javier López Martín -- Stowed or mounted : the Spanish Armada of 1588 and the strategic logistics of guns at sea / Colin Martin -- "A jewel of great value" : English iron gunfounding and its rivals, 1550-1650 / Ruth Brown -- Ships and guns of the Tudor navy, 1495-1603 / Robert Douglas Smith -- The British sea service mortars : some notes on their evolution with particular reference to the drawings of Albert Borgard, c. 1700 / Martino Ferrari Bravo -- Sixteenth-century French naval guns / Max Guérout.

ISBN

• 9781842179697 (alk. paper)
• 1842179691 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011000547

OCLC

• 700205519
• SCSB-12726163

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library