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3 unusual facts about Ludovico Trevisan


Battle of Mytilene

Battle of Mytilene (1457), naval battle between the Roman Catholic Church under Ludovico Trevisan and the Ottoman Empire

Ludovico Trevisan

An account of his victory is also available in an important contemporary war poem, Trophaeum Anglaricum by Florentine humanist Leonardo Dati, which praises Trevisan's caution as much as his impetuosity, comparing him to captains of antiquity such as Alexander the Great and Hannibal.

He succeeded his rival Giovanni Vitelleschi, a fellow militaristic cardinal, as bishop of TraĆ¹ and metropolitan bishop of Florence.



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