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​The Sixties were a golden age for Italian shipbuilding, especially for liners. There was the likes of the handsome Leonardo da Vinci, the sisters Guglielmo Marconi & Galileo Galilei and then the big Michelangelo & Raffaello, the innovative Oceanic & the smart Eugenio "C".


These ships all appear in our new book Great Mediterranean Passenger Liners.


In this evocative 1965 view, the Marconi is at Genoa -- with the Constitution on the left and little Soviet-flag Estonia all but crammed in the middle. ​