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bombard Brondolo. Oil the 22nd January the great bombard was fired, and 
it struck the Campanile of Brondolo, knocking down a great piece of the 
wall, the stones of which struck and killed Pietro Doria the Genoese general, 
and his nephew, whose bodies, with many tears and great grief on the part 
of the Genoese, were taken to Chioggia, and embalmed (salati) for removal 
to Genoa. 
On the 23rd, the same bombard knocked down a great piece of the wall 
of the same Campanile, and killed 22 men. The Yenetians made it a custom 
to discharge these bombards and the mangonels in the evening, and they 
were fired in the morning at daybreak against the monastery; and the 
Yenetians continued to fire these two great bombards till a large part of the 
. monastery was in ruins, and a considerable number of the men who were 
in it were killed. 1 
By such means did the Yenetians recover their losses, and defeat the 
Genoese. Perhaps of all the notices of early cannon which have been 
presented to us, this is the most remarkable. On board boats, in action on 
shore, in attack and in defence, on every occasion of a fight, the bombards 
were scattering death among the combatants. And in Italy, as in all the 
other countries which we have noticed, great stone shot and great cannon „ 
were introduced together. Although the Italians had used both iron and 
brazen projectiles, these had probably never reached any great size, but the 
huge stone shot had indeed terrible effect. 
An inventory taken at Bologna in the year 1381, and published in full in 
the Emperor Napoleon^ Etudes, 2 3 contains the following items relating to 
our subject 
In primis in cortile. 
Ducentos nonaginta quinque lapides a bombardis. 
Lapides marmoreos a bombardis trecentos triginta quatuor. 
In secunda camera . 
Quatuor canones a bombardis inter quorum unus est cupri sine cepo, et alii cum 
cipis ferratis. 
Duos carrittos a bombardis cum duabus rotis pro qualihet, 
Unam scannum a bombardis cum uno police. 
Unum canonem cupri a bombardis ponderis librarum ccclxi. 
In prima camera ferramentorum . 
Centum septuaginta cocones lignei a bombardis. 
1 The descriptions given by And. Gataro and Chinazzo agree in all material facts. A portion 
of the text of the latter is printed below. “ Alii 22, nel Campo da Fosson fu scaricata la bombarda 
grossa, la qual diede nel Campanile di Brondolo e gettb giu in terra un gran pezzo di muro, le pietre 
del quale percossero, & ammazzarono il Doria generale de’ Genovesi, & un suo nipoti, i quali con 
grandissimi pianti, e con dolor universale de’ Genovesi furono portati in Chioza grande, e salati 
per portare a Genova. Et alii 23, l’istessa bombarda gettb giu un gran pezzo di muro in detto 
Campanile, che ammazzb altri 22 huomini. Et era solito de’ Veneziani caricar le bombarde la sera, 
e cosi i mangani, e nell’ Alba gli scaricavano contra il detto Monastero j e continuandosi a scaricar 
le due Bombarde grosse soprascritte, gran parte di esso Monastero si spianava, & assai huomini di 
quelli di dentro restavano morti.” 
3 Yol. I. p. 358. 
