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The same authors mention the employment of bombards both in the 
attack upon Curan by the Venetians, and its defence in the same year. 1 
It appears by the Neapolitan journals that Queen Joanna besieging 
Teano in 1373, made use of “trabucchi, bombarde, e cave da ogni banda.” 2 
In the same year the Paduans and Venetians again employed bombards 
against each other “che dalh una parte e dalF altra era tanto rumore, che non 
shntendava persona nissuna.” Many were wounded and killed on both 
sides, among the latter being Count Richard of St Boniface; and again 
shortly afterwards the fire of the Venetian bombards compelled the Paduans 
to retire with great loss. 3 
We learn from the Milanese annals, and the statement is confirmed by 
Mussi in the chronicle of Piacentino, that in 1373, Galeazzo Visconti em¬ 
ployed bombards, in conjunction with other engines, in the siege of Vercelli 
with very great success. 4 
Daniello Chinazzo, in his relation of the invasion of the Venetian territory 
by the Duke of Austria in 1376, mentions that 
“ Quelli di Peltre, e di Cividal, intesa la partita de Veneziani da Quero, man- 
darono due bombarde, una sul monte di Corveta, 1’altra su la strada appresso la 
Chiusa vecchia, chiamata la Mosclietta,” 
and that shortly afterwards Cavalli, the Venetian captain, retook the two 
“ bastie di Quero per forza di bombarde,” and having taken up a position 
before Peltre, “ comincio a bombardar la citta.” 5 This is corroborated by 
Andrea Gataro, who further tells us that the Genoese assaulted Tenedo, when 
by both them and the Venetians many bombards were employed. 6 
In 1378 the war between Venice and Padua was renewed, and affords a 
curious instance of bombards taken to the top of a steeple or belfry and fired 
from that position. Chinazzo relates that the captain of Padua “ mise 
campo a Mestre, e combatte la bastia, ed il borgo di S. Lorenzo con gran 
gente.la circondo da tutti i lati, battendola con bombarde e mangani.” 
.And when he had obtained possession of the suburb he “messero 
alcune bombarde sul Campanil di S. Lorenzo, colle quali facevano dentro 
della Terra grandissimo danno.” 7 
Galeazzo and Andrea Gataro confirm these statements of the great value of 
the bombards in this attack. 8 
We read in the chronicle of Rimini that, in this same year 1378, Galeotto, 
besieging Cesena, made use of “ cinque trabucchi, e bombarde, e balestre 
infinite, che di e notte non finivano;” 9 and the Venetians, according to 
1 Muratori, Eer. Ital. Script. Tom. 17, col. 121-122. 
2 Ibid. Tom. 21, col. 1036. This appears to disprove the assertion of Sismondi (Hist, des repub. 
Ital. du moyen age. Paris, 1826, Yol. VII. chap. 62, p. 249), that when Urban VI. was besieged 
in the castle of Nocera, artillery had not as yet been introduced into the kingdom of Naples. 
3 Ibid. Tom. 17, col. 185—186. 
4 Ibid. Tom. 16, col. 752 and col 515. 
5 IbA. Tom. 15, col. 709 and 710. 
6 Ibid. Tom. 17, col. 225, 226. See also further on, p. 32. 
1 Ibid. Tom. 16, col. 714. 
8 Ibid. Tom. 17, col. 251 
9 Ibid, Tom, 15, col. 921, 
