In 1499
another war broke out between the Ottoman Empire
and Venice. A Venetian fleet was defeated in a
battle near the island of Sapienza, July 28,
1499; and Lepanto (Naupactos), Modon, Coron, and
Navarino, were besieged and taken by the Ottoman,
while Iskandar Pasha, with a land army, invaded
and laid waste the country along the river
Tagliamento in the north of Italy. A combined
Venetian and Spanish fleet took possession Cephalonia,
and captured twenty Turkish galleys. By the
treaty of peace, which was concluded in December,
1502, the Venetians were obliged to leave the island
of Santa Maura in the hands of the Turks, but
they kept possession of Cephalonia, and obtained
.the privilege of appointing a consul at
Constantinople, and of trading in the Black Sea.
Lepanto,
Battle of 1571
On Oct. 7, 1571, John
of Austria commander of the Holy
League led his ships into battle off the
coast of Lepanto, Greece in the Gulf of
Patras.
The Holy League was
Spain, Venice, and the Papal States of
Italy.
The set back was
temporary.
. Former Textile Museum Trustee Walter Denny a rug
expert and professor of art at the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst is quoted as saying that
the Venetian Republic was “an entrepôt for
the importation into Europe of profitable luxury
goods such as carpets and textiles, and opened a
European door to the Islamic cultures that
created those goods,”.
Matthee, Rudi "Between
Venice and Surat: The Role of Gold in Late
Safavid Iran," Modern Asian Studies 34,
(2000 forthcoming), 231-265.
Lorenzo
Lotto's The Alms of St Anthony 1542 Basilica dei
Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
JBOC: The
Venetians on the Black Sea allowed a way for trade
with Persia that bypassed Ottoman control.