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The Battle of Lepanto
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On 7 October 1571 the fleets of the Holy League (a coalition of European states) and those of the Ottoman Empire clashed in the current Gulf of Corinth, known at the time as the Gulf of Lepanto. The Battle of Lepanto was one of the last fought on rowing boats, the galleys.

Three of the original banners that flew on the war galleys of the Scotti family - ancestors of the Zanardi Landi - during the clash in which the Christians defeated the Turks, despite the numerical prevalence of the latter's ships, are - together with eleven small flags dating back to the same battle - the rare and precious testimonies of the military past exhibited in the Rivalta Castle museum. This is highlighted by the magazine "Radici Cristiane", a monthly magazine that refers to the perennial values ​​of European and Western civilization.

Until now, writes Mauro Faverzani in the April issue, it was known that the Scotti family was present at the battle of Lepanto with their ships and their banners. Thanks to the research conducted by Count Orazio Zanardi Landi and supported in the pages of Andrea Morosini's volume entitled Storia della Repubblica Veneziana (1782), the names have been identified: it is Onorio Scotti who embarked with 600 soldiers on the ships, which were in Lepanto in 1571 and Paolo Emilio Scotti, count of Sarmato, probably present in Lepanto in the contingent of his cousin Honorius.  Carlo Scotti commanded a Genoese galley as part of the Christian Holy League fleet led by Don John of Austria.

The standards were left by the great-grandmother of Count Orazio Zanardi Landi: the family tree explains how after her the Scotti di Sarmato family merged into the Zanardi Landi family.


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