And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, September 13, 2026
A gun hidden within a bible, made for Francesco Morozini, Doge of Venice (1619-1694). The owner of the bible could pull the silk bookmark to shoot while the book was still closed. Now on display at the Museo Correr in Venice
Brings to mind the movie "Five Card Stud" where Robert Mitchum plays a sinister preacher with a revolver hidden this same way, but his killing spree comes to an end when Dean Martin's character notices the bible the preacher is reading from is upside down and ends the murderous spree in a shootout.
Shows how much respect he had for the Good Book.
ReplyDelete"The Doge did what the Doge does... get it"
ReplyDeleteBut, . . . thinking about the recoil, . . .
ReplyDeleteBrings to mind the movie "Five Card Stud" where Robert Mitchum plays a sinister preacher with a revolver hidden this same way, but his killing spree comes to an end when Dean Martin's character notices the bible the preacher is reading from is upside down and ends the murderous spree in a shootout.
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