Qualla: Battle of Settepozzi https://qualla.com/battle-of-settepozzi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/7/battle-of-settepozzi-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Settepozzi https://qualla.com/battle-of-settepozzi Battle of Settepozzi: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-settepozzi/ Photo credit Quinto Cenni, Public domain. When the signal to attack went up on the Genoese flagship, only fourteen of the forty-eight ships in the fleet moved. The other thirty-four held their oars in the water and watched. Two of the four admirals - Pietro Avvocato and Lanfranco Spinola - drove their ships at the Venetian line off the island the Italians called Settepozzi (today's Spetses, in the Saronic Gulf). The other two admirals fled. By sundown Avvocato was dead, four Genoese galleys were in Venetian hands, and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos in Constantinople had received the kind of news that ends alliances.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/7/battle-of-settepozzi-wp/sw87-battle-of-settepozzi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Settepozzi: An Alliance Born of Necessity https://qualla.com/battle-of-settepozzi/ Photo credit William Robert Shepherd, Public domain. The setup at Settepozzi was three years in the making. In 1261 Michael VIII, ruler of the rump Empire of Nicaea, was preparing to retake Constantinople from the Latins who had held it since the Fourth Crusade. He had soldiers. He did not have ships. The Venetians, who had install...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/7/battle-of-settepozzi-wp/sw87-battle-of-settepozzi-an-alliance-born-of-necessity.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Settepozzi: Why the Ships Wouldn't Fight https://qualla.com/battle-of-settepozzi/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Genoese galleys did not belong to Genoa. They belonged to merchant families who paid for their construction and outfitting and expected returns. An admiral who lost a ship had to answer to the family that had financed it. The historians Frederic Lane and Deno Geanakoplos have poi...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/7/battle-of-settepozzi-wp/sw87-battle-of-settepozzi-why-the-ships-wouldnt-fight.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Settepozzi: The Battle That Never Quite Happened https://qualla.com/battle-of-settepozzi/ Photo credit Quinto Cenni, Public domain. In the early summer of 1263, the Genoese fleet of 38 galleys and 10 lighter saette - some 6,000 men - was sailing south to the Byzantine fortress of Monemvasia at the tip of the Peloponnese. North of the island of Spetses they ran into a Venetian fleet of 32 galleys under Guibert...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/7/battle-of-settepozzi-wp/sw87-battle-of-settepozzi-the-battle-that-never-quite-happened.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Settepozzi: Aftermath in Three Capitals https://qualla.com/battle-of-settepozzi/ Photo credit Quinto Cenni, Public domain. What happened at Settepozzi stopped being a local naval defeat the moment the dispatches reached Genoa, Venice, and Constantinople. In Genoa, a court of inquiry was convened - an unusual step - and the surviving admirals were condemned for their excesses and malfeasance in the ar...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/7/battle-of-settepozzi-wp/sw87-battle-of-settepozzi-aftermath-in-three-capitals.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Settepozzi: Spetses Today https://qualla.com/battle-of-settepozzi/ Photo credit Quinto Cenni, Public domain. Settepozzi - the seven-wells, in medieval Italian - is now Spetses, a small island in the Saronic Gulf about 90 km southwest of Athens. Cars are mostly banned in the old town; horse carts and small boats run the harbor. The pine-wooded hills slope down to the same indented coast ...

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