Lucrezio Gravisi

Lucrezio Gravisi (c. 1558 – 30 December 1613) was a Venetian freelance soldier from Capodistra in Istria, now Koper in Slovenia.

By the age of 16, he had sailed on the galley of his relative Pietro Gravisi in the war against the Turks.

He travelled in Spain and Portugal, and then to the court of the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa.

Returning to Venice, he was dispatched to Candia (Crete) with two companies of soldiers to stop the raids of pirates.

[3] However, while in the harbour in Mandre, a port on the island of Pag in Dalmatia, pirates in six boats attacked his galley at night while the crew was sleeping.