Venice and Genoa fight at Curzola

1298

On a Sunday in September off the Dalmatian island of Curzola, a Genoese fleet shattered a Venetian one, capturing nearly seven thousand men, among them Marco Polo. Polo's imprisonment produced his Travels. The battle was a high point of Genoese sea power over Venice. The maritime war between the two republics would continue intermittently for another century before Venice finally gained the upper hand.