#lepanto

"Suonate le campane, abbiamo vinto a Lepanto !"

San Pio V.

In questo giorno del 1571 che ricorda la Madonna del Rosario, a Lepanto combatterono veneziani, genovesi, napoletani, romani, siciliani, toscani, calabresi, emiliani, sardi, marchigiani e piemontesi.

Ognuno con la sua Identità ma uniti da un ideale: l'Europa non è terra di conquista!

Difendila!

Il Crocifisso fu il vero comandante in battaglia.

Le spoglie di Papa Pio V, riposano nella basilica dì Santa Maria Maggiore in Roma.

RICORDA!

Nel 1570 i Turchi Ottomani conquistano Nicosia e assedia Famagosta la caduta di quest'ultima (1 agosto 1571) segna la fine del dominio veneziano su Cipro 📜. L'impero turco sembra inarrestabile. Per questo, Papa Pio V crea la Lega Santa: Venezia, Genova, Savoia, Parma, Stato Pontificio e Impero di Spagna. Viene radunata una grande flotta e al suo comando è posto Don Giovanni d'Austria, fratello di Filippo II di Spagna 🇪🇸 👑.

Nel Golfo di Patrasso 🇬🇷, la flotta della Lega Santa combatte con la flotta ottomana. I Turchi hanno più navi ma meno cannoni. Don Giovanni schiera le sue navi in modo da attirare un attacco e Ali Pascià, ammiraglio ottomano, accetta la sfida ⚔️ 🌊. Dunque attacca e punta la nave di Don Giovanni d'Austria. Ali Pascià muore nell'attacco e di conseguenza il morale dei Turchi crolla. Alla fine, la flotta turca venne annientata. I Turchi mantennero il controllo del Mediterraneo orientale ma furono costretti a costruire una nuova flotta e persero molto prestigio 📜

Nel dipinto la battaglia di Lepanto 1571, di Ignazio Danti 🖼️ 🗺️

Zwischendrin noch etwas Dogenpalast- Nachschlag. Kriegt man ja kaum in einen maximal 10 Bilder-Post, was da alles rumhängt & steht: Erbeutete & eigene Waffen, Tintoretti und andere Berühmtheiten wie eine Heilige in Ekstase von Artemisia Gentileschi, Statuen, die unvermeidliche Seeschlacht von Lepanto & weitere Kriegserfolge, Dogen mit diversen Päpsten, Kaisern & Königen, Amt & Würdenträger im Potrait galore..

Und dieser eine Doge in der langen Reihe von Tausend Jahren Dogenportraits im großen Saal, dessen Biäd mit einem schwarzen Vorhang übermslt wurde. Weil er um 13hundert rum versucht hatte die *Republik" zu stürzen und seine Familie als Alleinherrscher einzusetzen. Das hat ihn damals,nicht nur bildlich, den Kopf gekostet.

There are several answers to this question, depending on what type of writing you're interested in, because Chesterton wrote in a lot of different formats.

Novels: My favorite (and the one that feels most "Chestertonian" in the sense of embracing the joys and paradoxes of modern life) is Manalive, which is about a boarding house full of disaffected young people whose lives are upended by the arrival of the energetic and eccentric Innocent Smith, who may or may not be a dangerous lunatic. I'm also fond of his first novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, which is set in the far future of 1984, where the actions of two eccentric guys get London caught up in medieval warfare. That book addresses Chesterton's common theme of the tension between taking life too seriously and not taking it seriously enough, but it is a very odd book that's a bit more of an acquired taste.

Short stories: Chesterton's most enduring legacy in pop culture is the Father Brown mysteries--one of the few detectives at the time that wasn't just a Sherlock Holmes clone. These stories are half mystery and half philosophical essay, and I love them (and they're nothing like the TV show). I always tell people to start with the first collection, The Innocence of Father Brown, because the first four stories there--"The Blue Cross", "The Secret Garden", "The Queer Feet" and "The Flying Stars"--form an arc that should be read in chronological order, and the rest of the stories can be read in pretty much any order.

Poetry: Chesterton's big achievement is "The Ballad of the White Horse", a novel-length epic poem about the legends of King Alfred the Great and his war against the Danes. But if you don't feel like reading something so long, his other masterpiece is "Lepanto", a stirring poem about the Battle of Lepanto that saved Europe from a Turkish invasion (though that one is much better if you know the historical context). He also wrote this short, rather biting anti-war poem "Elegy in a Country Churchyard".

If you want something not about war, Chesterton was known for his love of Christmas, and he wrote several excellent Christmas poems, including "A Christmas Carol", "The Wise Men", "Gloria in Profundis", "Joseph" , and "A Child of the Snows".

(As long as we're talking about Christmas poems, I'm going to mention that his wife, Frances, was also a poet, and she wrote a Christmas poem every year for their family Christmas card, which include, "How Far Is It To Bethlehem" and "The Shepherds Found Thee By Night".)

Essays: Tremendous Trifles contains several of the humorous, insightful essays that are among the first things I think of when I think of the Chestertonian mindset, including "A Piece of Chalk", "The Advantages of Having One Leg", and "On Lying in Bed" . Perhaps my favorite Chesterton essay, "On Running After One's Hat" isn't in this collection, but feels like it should be.

Nonfiction: "Orthodoxy" is probably Chesterton's most famous and most accessible religious book, which outlines the worldviews that led him to embrace Christianity.