. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 70.—Turreted Vessel -which, protected the Port of Venice.—From, a Medal struck inhonour of the Doge P. Candiano I., who died in 887 (Venetian Museum). the fuste and the frigate, both smaller examples of the galeasse. A galleywas termed galeasse (Fig. 72) when it was of large size, powerfully armed,and propelled by such long and heavy oars that it took six or seven men towork one of Fig. 71.—The Bucentaure, State Barge used for the Marriage of the Doge of Venice with theSea.—From the Model preserv
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 70.—Turreted Vessel -which, protected the Port of Venice.—From, a Medal struck inhonour of the Doge P. Candiano I., who died in 887 (Venetian Museum). the fuste and the frigate, both smaller examples of the galeasse. A galleywas termed galeasse (Fig. 72) when it was of large size, powerfully armed,and propelled by such long and heavy oars that it took six or seven men towork one of Fig. 71.—The Bucentaure, State Barge used for the Marriage of the Doge of Venice with theSea.—From the Model preserved in the Arsenal of Venice. We have not by any means exhausted the number of long vessels pro-pelled by oars, but we will now turn to those which only used sails, andwhich were termed nefs, or round vessels. In the tenth century the Venetians employed these large heavy vessels,which they had adopted from the Saracens, and which were termed cumbaries(from the Latin cymba), or gombaries. To the same class belonged the coque 7* NAVAL MATTERS. (Fig. 73), which, according to an old chronicler, had a round stem and stern,a high freeboard, and drew very little water. This style of vessel, whichfrom its shape was considered insubmersable, was largely used both for war-like and commercial purposes, from the twelfth to the close of the fifteenthcentury. The coque, so frequently employed in the Middle Ages, doubtlesssuggested the construction of another large vessel of the sam
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