"The Adriatic Sea was home to numerous groups of people engaged in piracy. The activities carried out by these were essentially attributable to the depredation of merchant boats that passed near their settlements and to rapid raids on land, hunting for goods to prey or men to be enslaved for ransom. This activity is documented since the first decades of the first century d. C. and continued in the same way at least until the mid-seventeenth century. In the case of Dalmatian piracy, many factors have converged the choice of the different populations inhabiting the coasts towards piracy. A particularly important factor was the strategic position of their settlement, which has always been an obligatory passage of rich merchant routes that connected the First Byzantine and then Ottoman Levant to vast territories of the European continent.  The presence of trafficking has always been, in fact, the main attraction of populations dedicated to piracy » Pappalardo Salvatore

"In the common imagination Blackbeard is one of the cruelest pirates ever existed, but his figure has undergone considerable distortions that have compromised the perception of historical reality.

He was a cold, resolute and calculating leader, but he did not kill or torture prisoners, who on the contrary treated his subordinates with great humanity. Yet, in the early eighteenth century, anyone who spotted his flag knew that Blackbeard was synonymous with death.

Outside of his outlaw career, some historians have assumed that his real name was Edward Drummond. According to one of the most accredited hypotheses, it was born around 1680 in Bristol, a port city of England that, during the seventeenth century, had become one of the main maritime connections with the British colonies in America. It is assumed that he arrived in the New World in the last years of the seventeenth century aboard a merchant ship and was a sailor on one of the many corsair ships that took part in the so-called War of Queen Anne, which from 1702 and 1713 involved the colonial empires of Spain, France and Great Britain » Ianuale Nicola

"Legend has it that in 943, under the Doge Pietro Candiano, all marriages were celebrated on a single day of the year. The brides left in a water procession from the Arsenale along the river called "delle Vergini" to reach their promised husbands.

That year the pirates of Trieste or Narentani attacked the procession and kidnapped the brides with all the kits and dowries. Showing a decidedly ominous impatience for them, the raiders did not flee to take shelter in the swarm of Dalmatian islands and were joined by the expedition that the Venetians had prepared already a few hours after the rape. The pirates were all slaughtered on the spot, and the brides brought back to the ceremony.

In memory of the lightning victory, tribute was imposed on twelve patrician families to provide every year for the dowry of twelve poor Venetian girls chosen among the most beautiful, symbolically baptized as "le Marie" » Giorgi Sebastiano