File:Venetian blazon in Corfu.jpg

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  • Italiano: Il leone di san Marco, simbolo di Venezia, sovrasta a Corfù (anticamente possedimento veneziano) un'iscrizione latina che ricorda i lavori di fortificazione condotti a termine sotto il doge Alvise III Mocenigo, che ne incaricò Marco Antonio Diedo e Giorgio Grimani, nel 1728.
  • English: 1728 Venetian Monument on Defensive Wall of Corfu Town, with Lion of Saint Mark (Symbol of Venice) above. Inscribed in Latin:

D(eo) O(ptimo) M(aximo)
Aloysius Mocenico Venetiarum Dux
Marcus Antonius Diedo Moderat(o)r Supremus
Georgius Grimani Classis Praefectus
Haec Primus Jussit
Alter Disposuit
Tertius Noctudiurno Labore Brevit(e)r Absolvit

("To God, most good, most great, Alvise III Mocenigo, Duke of the Venetians (i.e. Doge); Marco Antonio Diedo, Supreme Governor; Giorgio Grimani, Commander of the Fleet; The first ordered this (i.e. the Wall); The second planned it; the third, by labour day and night, quickly completed it").
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