A gun hidden within a bible, made for Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice (1619-1694).

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  1. >During the Morean War the Parthenon was used as a gunpowder magazine by the Ottomans. On 26 September 1687, Venetian mortars bombarding Athens scored a direct hit on the edifice.
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    >An attaché of the Swedish field commander General Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck wrote later: “How it dismayed His Excellency to destroy the beautiful temple which had existed three thousand years!”.
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    >By contrast Morosini, who was the commander in chief of the operation, described it in his report to the Venetian government as a “fortunate shot”.

    When he conquered the Acropolis in early 1688, Morosini attempted to loot Athena’s and Poseidon’s horses and chariots from the western pediment of the Parthenon, but the sculptures fell on the ground and smashed.
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    >This was the first documented attempt to remove sculptures from the pediments.
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    >The Ottoman Empire regained possession of the monument in the following year and, having noticed the damage, began to sell souvenirs to Westerners.

    Morosini also took the Piraeus Lion as a war trophy to the Venetian Arsenal.

    What a dick!

  2. Can anyone elaborate on who possibly possessed this fire arm and why they may have needed it. Surely protection of one self or the ridding of a foe could be inferred, however, if you please, a punctilious response would be warmly received.

  3. The most powerful verse in the Bible says ‘Thou shalt shut up when thy face is greeted by my gun”.

  4. Francesco Morosini was not just inventive in terms of biblical firearms, but also in terms of financial innovations, with some of his greatest inventions considered centuries ahead of its time. In particular, he was the first man to mint a type of physical cryptocurrency, which still carries his official title.

  5. I’m surprised that it wouldn’t be considered sacrilegious to damage a holy book, especially to turn it into a weapon.
    Shouldn’t it have been scandalous that the Doge would allow a bible to be chopped up?

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