Golden Age of Dubrovnik`s Maritime History
´Argosies with portly sail, the pageants of the sea’. So Shakespeare describes them in The Merchant of Venice, those charasteristic chubby wooden freighter ships that plied the Mediterranean in their heyday of the 15th and 16th centuries. The word Argosy is derived directly from the word Ragusa. Used initially to describe the Ragusan carrack, the largest [...]





Monday, November 2, 2009