Francesco Morosini's Bible with a pistol hidden inside its pages

Francesco Morosini, famed above all for his military successes in the name of Venice and remembered in history as the man who destroyed the Parthenon in Athens, was terribly afraid of assassination and hid weapons for self-defence everywhere. Here is his Bible, whose bookmark served as the trigger of a portable pistol concealed within the block of pages: to fire, one had only to pull the bookmark. A Gospel of the militant kind