XJF331796 Tripoli, c.1550 |(engraving) by Italian School, (16th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: view of the fortified city of Tripoli on the Barbary Coast; a centre for piracy in the Mediterranean, the Spanish under Pedro Navarra captured the town in 1510 to prevent this danger to shipping and trade and gave the port to the Knights of St. John; recaptured by Ottoman Turks in 1551 and again became a centre for pirates;); Italian, out of copyright.