Talk:Battle of Lepanto order of battle

Croatian Names

Just on the translations of the names, would it be better to put the original name first, then perhaps a translation in brackets, in case someone else comes along and says "hey that name's wrong"? This way they'd know, "oh, it's the same name, just a different language". SpookyMulder 13:44, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

The names were wrong and that is all. I saw even the galley "Leone" of "Capodistria" commanded by "Domenico dal Tago", translated in modern Croatian: "Lav" of "Kopar" commanded by "Domink dal Tako". That is very funny: this city was always italian, in 1945 has became Slovenian, but for sure it was never Croatian. That should be the "original" names"! Coastal Dalmatia was populated by a mix of people, italian and slavic. It's not possible to speak about "nationalities", it was a mix! But for sure, slavic wes NEVER an official languange before XIX century, so it is NOT possible for those ships to have slavic names!!!! Those name are only a recent translation of the original names. And this is TIPICAL of Croat nationalism! If somebedy can demonstrate that those ships had slavic name in XVI century, is welcomed. But on the contrary, let's keep the REAL names!!!!! And I mean,to demonstrate with document of the time, and NOT with pseudo-historic books of XIX and XX centuries, maybe printed in Croatia. --Giovanni Giove 15:21, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, recently, there was a sign erected in Nafpaktos, commemorating Croatians who were killed in battle. For that to be possible, Greek authorities insisted on some independent historical proof that Croats were fighting among christian soldiers. Venetians never listed nationalities of people in their army (Spain did!), and it's unfair, because, at least 3000 Croats died, and some ships in Venetian fleet were from Dalmatian coastal cities. Even if Croatian wasn't official in Dalmatia then, crews spoke Croatian, and mass on those ships was held on Croatian language. I think Croatian names of those ships could be at least in brackets.

Post documents or let it be. If you claim that the mass in the ship spoke Croatian (that would be surprising), post documents. The fact that some Slavic Dalmatian were in Venitian ships (it is possible), is meaningless. Dalamatian cities did not belonged to a Croatian state in that time. I've reveted all your edits, they have no historical relevance at all.--Giovanni Giove 17:07, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I'd say there's no need to be snippy, but we're certainly talking about Italian names of Italian vessels of Italian states (save the Spaniards) regardless of what the crew spoke. -LlywelynII (talk) 21:56, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Complete list of the names

I saw that a complete list of the names is present in the Italian article. Better than the present English version. If somepody wnat to compite the work, he can have a look there (no problem for language: it is easy! --Giovanni Giove 15:23, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Another source for a list of the names in English is here on p24. -LlywelynII (talk) 21:56, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

On examination, what a mess. The Italian article looks fine but is unsourced, while the English list (already sourced on the page here) claims to be very well researched despite lacking Italian names & commanders, having some blatant errors (Santa Euphemia for Sant'Eufemia, Kodus for Rodi, Middle Moon for Half Moon, the bizarre God the Father over the Holy Trinity in place of God, Father and Holy Trinity), several dubious claims (Rema for Regina/Reina), and lists of "unnamed galleys" where the Italian page has them. Bleh. -LlywelynII (talk) 16:27, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Gil de Andrade

Why is there no mention of Gil de Andrade. Vice Admiral de Andrade was the captain of the flagship Real and commanded the scouting fleet. Gil de Andrade is listed in Niccolo's Cappioni book "Victory of the West" and Fernand Braudel book about naval warfare in the Meditarranean during the 1500s.--Charles A 13:12, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I now see tha Gil d'Andrada is referenced as captain of one of the Genovese galley's.

? ("capitana") of Gil d'Andrada - Bernardo Cinoguera

But, according to page XXIV of Niccolo Capponi's book,"Victory of the West", Gil de Andrada was captain of the John of Austria's flagship the Real. Fernand Braudel's book lists him as "Gil de Andrade". Both Andrade and Andrada forms of the same surname.--Charles A 20:10, 25 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scipio-62 (talk • contribs)

Why so many ???

It was my impression that there were simply multiple ships referred to as "flagship" (Capitana) and "lady" (Padrona) which were distinguished by the name of the fleet or commander. Is there any source that these ships had separate names as well? Pending confirmation and some names, am removing all the marks. -LlywelynII (talk) 21:56, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

This is absolutely right in my view. Neither Capitana nor Padrona were considered names and I don't believe it's accurate to present them as such. From what I've read, Venetian galleys often didn't even have names, and when they did, they were often inherited by completely different physical vessels. Galley hulls were fairly easy and cheap to build, so they seldom achieved the same individual status that the more complex and expensive sailing vessels did.

Peter ^Isotalo 19:11, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Italian naval terms

From flagship article at the Italian wiki. -LlywelynII (talk) 22:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Which 'Andrea Doria'?

There seems to be some confusion here, concerning (Gio/Gia) Andrea Doria participating in the battle of Lepanto. I found one link connecting to the page of [Andrea_Doria], but he was dead by 1560. (It IS linking to "Gio_Andrea_Doria", but that is redirected to the elder Doria instead of [Giovanni_Andrea_Doria], who indeed did participate. The portrait accompanying the list of battle of the Genovese galleys is also of the elder Doria, so its relevance is qustionable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.67.88.218 (talk) 15:15, 2 June 2010 (UTC)