Leonardo Foscolo
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Leonardo Foscolo (1588. - 1660.)[1] was a Venetian commander.
During the Cretan War (1645–1669), Leonardo Foscolo seized several forts, retook Novigrad, temporarily captured the Knin Fortress, and managed to compel the garrison of Klis Fortress to surrender.[2][3]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Tomić, Radoslav (2020). "Generalni providur Leonardo Foscolo i umjetnost u Dalmaciji". Radovi Instituta Za Povijest Umjetnosti (43): 191–209. doi:10.31664/ripu.2019.43.15. S2CID 214029101.
- ^ Fraser (1854), pp. 244–245.
- ^ Setton (1991), pp. 148–149.
Bibliography
[edit]- Fraser, Robert William (1854). Turkey, Ancient and Modern. a History of the Ottoman Empire From the Period of Its Establishment to the Present Time. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black – Harvard University. ISBN 978-1-4021-2562-1.
- Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1991). Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: Diane Publishing. ISBN 0-87169-192-2.
- Federico Moro - Venezia e la guerra in Dalmazia (1644-1649) - Anno edizione: 2018
- Targhetta, Renata (1997). "FOSCOLO, Leonardo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 49: Forino–Francesco da Serino (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.