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(3) John F. Guilmartin, Jr., Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean
Warfare al Sea in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974),
204-207.
(4) A forced investment on the pare of the patriciate yielding an annua! rerurn of five
percent, the Mondo Nuovo was not without precedent, but represents the first systematic com-
mianent of future profits co current defense needs of which I am aware. McCarty, "Civil-Military
Revolution' ', 13, citing War Culture and Sodety: Essays in Honor of ]. R. Ha/e (London: The Ham-
bledon Press, 1993), 60.
(5) SeeJohn H. Pryor, Geography, Technology and War: Studies in the Maritime History to the
Mediterranean 649-1571 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
(6) John H. Pryor, "The Geographical Conditions of Galley Warfare. in che Mediterra-
nean", The Age ofthe Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels since Pre-C/assical Times, Richard Unger,
ed. (London: Conwai Maritime Press, 1995) provides a remarkably concise and convincing
analysis of the considerations involved.
(7) See Mauro Bondioli, René Burlet and André Zysberg, "The Naval Architecture and
Oar Systems of Medieval and Later Galleys'' andJohn F. Dotson, ''Economics and Logistics
of Galley Warfare", The Age of the Galley.