. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. THE POPES. given to Don John of Austria. It encountered the Turkish fleet, which con-sisted of two hundred and twenty-four vessels, in the Gulf of Lepanto, onOctober 7th, 1571. The infidels were annihilated, losing twenty-five thou-sand men and ten thousand prisoners, while fifteen thousand Christians whomthey had chained to their galleys were set at liberty (Fig. 215). Catholic

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