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Vincenzo Anastagi (died 1585) was an Italian Knight of Rhodes who participated in the Siege of Malta (1565). He had joined the Knights two years before the siege. Sallying with about a hundred cavalry from Mdina, he led a surprise cavalry charge against the poorly guarded Turkish camp on August 7th, while the main Turkish force was engaged in an assault on Birgu and Senglea. The assault would have likely succeeded were it not for the intervention of Anastagi's cavalry that created a confusion in the Turkish rear. In the words of a modern historian: "Malta survived on 7 August purely through Anastagi's lucky strike". 〔 Roger Crowley, "Empires of the Sea: The siege of Malta, the battle of Lepanto and the contest for the center of the world", publisher Random House, 2008, p176 〕 In 1585 he was nominated as Captain of the Galera Capitana, but then murdered by two fellow knights.〔(Vincenzo Anastagi's heroic acts in the Great Siege of Malta )〕 His portrait was painted by El Greco sometime between 1571 and 1576. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vincenzo Anastagi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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