Lepanto

Interesting post on Lepanto at InsideCatholic.  Among those who fought in the glorious victory was Miguel de Cervantes, who suffered three gunshot wounds in the fight, including one which cost him his left arm.  Cervantes considered it an honor to have been wounded in the service of such a great cause, declaring he would rather have been present in the "glorious enterprise (of Lepanto), than to be whole in his limbs, and not to have been there at all."
I like Cy Twombly's 12 panel painting of Lepanto .  I've never read an explanation of Twombly's choice of this subject.  Maybe the date of  Lepanto's first exhibition (early 2002, shortly after 9/11) explains it.