Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Video "The Battle of Lepanto" by Veronese


 By Didier Descouens - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132596375

 Centuries later G. K. Chesterton revisited the conflict in his lively narrative poem Lepanto, first published in 1911 and republished many times since. It provided a series of poetic visions of the major characters in the battle, particularly the leader of the Christian forces, John of Austria, then closed with verses linking Miguel de Cervantes, who also fought in the battle, with the "lean and foolish knight" he would later immortalise in Don Quixote.

 


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