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Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ng to Beaulieu, from 700 to 800rowers, but I do not know on what system. f Marinus Sanutius, p. 78. These titles occur also in the Documenti oVAmore. of Fr. Barberino referred to at p. 117 of this volume : — Convienti qui manieriro>tolatii e prodicriE presti galeottiAver, e forti e doui. ON MEDI/EVAL WAR-GALLEYS 37 middle of the 14th century.* In this we see plainly theprojecting opera-morta, and the rowers sitting two to a bench,each with his oar, for these are two-banked. We can also dis-cern the Latin rudder on the quarter. (See this volume, p. 119.)In a picture in the Uffizj, at Florence, of about the same date, byPietro Laurato (it is in the corridor near the entrance), may beseen a small figure of a galley with the oars also very distinctlycoupled.f Casoni has engraved, after Cristoforo Canale, apictorial plan of a Venetian trireme of the 16th century, whichshows the arrangement of the oars in triplets very plainly. The following cut has been sketched from an engraving of a
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Part of a Sea Fight, after Dom. Tintoretto. picture by Domenico Tintoretto in the Doges palace, repre-senting, I believe, the same action (real or imaginary) asSpinellos fresco, but with the costume and construction ofa later date. It shows, however, very plainly, the projectingopera-morta, and the arrangement of the oars in fours, issuingthrough row-ports in high bulwarks. 28. Midships in the mediaeval galley a castle was erected, of * Spinellos works, according to Vasari, extended from 1334 till late in the century.A religious picture of his at Siena is assigned to 1385, so the frescoes may probablybe of about the same period. Of the battle represented I can find no record. t Engraved in Jal, i. 330 ; with other mediaeval illustrations of the same points. jS INTRODUCTION the width of the ship, and some 20 feet in length; its platform being elevated sufficiently to allow of free passage arrange- under it and over the benches. At the bow was the merits. . _ . ... battery, consisting o

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