Italy

The Battle of Zonchio

Battle Italy Naval History Ottoman 31 Min Read

The Battle of Zonchio (1499) by an unknown Venetian artist. The Venetians had a fortress (castle) on the headland built upon an ancient Greek fortress, it is known as Palaiokastron. The naval Battle of Zonchio took place off of Cape Zonchio from 12 to 25 August 1499. Flagship of Kemal Reis. The year 1499 was destined to be a cataclysmic…

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Lorenzo de’ Medici, (Lorenzo the Magnificent)

Portrait by Agnolo Bronzino Da Vinci’s Demons actors in a field Laura Haddock as Lucrezia Donati, Elliot Cowan as Lorenzo Medici, Tom Riley as Leonardo da Vinci, Blake Ritson as Girolamo Riario and Lara Pulver as Clarice Orsini. In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights…

History Italy 8 Min Read

Italian-occupied Corsica WWII

Italian-occupied Corsica refers to the military (and administrative) occupation by the Kingdom of Italy of the island of Corsica during World War II. It lasted from November 1942 to September 1943. After an initial period of increasing control over Corsica, Italian forces started losing territorial control to the local Resistance,…

Italy Warship 7 Min Read

ANIMOSO (DE LA PENNE) CLASS

Durand de la Penne The Durand De La Penne Class destroyers were built by Fincantieri for the Italian Navy. The keel of the first-of-class ship, MM Luigi Durand De La Penne (D560), was laid in 1988 and was launched in October 1989. The keel for the second, MM Francesco Mimbelli…

Italy Warship 4 Min Read

Italian Submarines In World War II

During the period between 1925 and 1940, the Regia Marina dedicated large resources to the strengthening of its submarine force, which resulted in the deployment of 50 large, 89 medium, 2 cargo and 50 small units. At the beginning of the hostilities (June 10th, 1940), Italy had a total of…

Air Warfare British History Italy 7 Min Read

Italian East Africa WWII

Italian air power In June 1940, the Italian Royal Air Force (Regia Aeronautica Italia) in East Africa had between two-hundred and three-hundred combat ready aircraft. While some of these aircraft were outdated, in relative terms these were some of the best aircraft available to either side in East Africa in…

Aircraft Italy 4 Min Read

Ansaldo SVA 5 Primo

The handsome Ansaldo craft conducted some of the longest and most impressive reconnaissance flights of World War I. They continued this tradition after the war and established many long-distance records. In 1916 the Ansaldo firm began constructing a new high-performance fighter craft as a private company venture. It fell upon…

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Uniforms of Italian Wars (1494-1559)

A series of sharp but also intermittent conflicts broke out over control of Italy at…

THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE ARMIES 1000-1300

Medieval Prints by Graham Turner Although firmly rooted and fairly well developed in the Rhineland,…

Italian Renaissance Infantry

It is a commonly held view that disciplined and effective infantry largely disappeared from the…

Warfare in Renaissance Italy

At the conclusion of the fifteenth century, Italy remained divided. There were four kingdoms: Sardinia,…