The Battle of Lepanto, Hardback - ***

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. The Battle of Lepanto anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets who composed Latin poetry in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Illustration(s): 2 halftones, 1 map
• Number of pages: 560
• Collection: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
• Publication date: 2014
• Dimensions: 142 x 203 x 30
• Cover type: Hardback