Italians are proud of their victory at the battle of Lepanto. After all, it was the greatest naval victory in history! So they even named a metro stop in Rome after it...
"The victory that followed was not won without hight cost: 7,500 Christian men perished, the greater part Venetian - but Italian history records with pride the sacrifice made by those of every region - and twelve galleys were sunk, but the Turks, as far as could be reckoned, lost 30,000 men, 8,000 were taken prisoner and all but 45 of their 270 ships sunk or captured, freeing thousands of Christian slaves."
-St. Pius V by Robin Anderson (Tan Books and Publishers).
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