claim: Watchmen is television drama set in an alternate history.
evidence: Domenico Malipiero -LRB- 1428 -- 1515 -RRB- was a naval captain from a patrician Venetian family who passed his youth in maritime commerce on his family 's behalf and became a Venetian senator in 1465 .. patrician. Patricianship. Venetian. Venice. He held a command in the War of Ferrara -LRB- 1482 -- 84 -RRB- , fought to relieve the siege of Pisa and was eventually made Admiral of the Fleet .. War of Ferrara. War of Ferrara. Pisa. Pisa. Before that , at the capture of Gallipoli from the Ottoman Turks , the captain-general was shot down on his poop deck as the battle was about to commence ; Malipiero modestly and matter-of-factly recounts that he spread a sheet over the captain 's body and put it about that the captain was merely severely wounded .. Gallipoli. Gallipoli. Ottoman Turks. Ottoman Turks. poop deck. poop deck. In semi-retirement from his maritime career he served as the Venetian governor of Rovigo -LRB- 1494 -RRB- , Rimini -LRB- 1505 -RRB- , Napoli di Romania -LRB- 1510 -RRB- and of Treviso in the year of his death .. Venetian. Venice. Rovigo. Rovigo. Rimini. Rimini. Napoli di Romania. Nafplion. Treviso. Treviso. He kept a chronicle in the Venetian language of the history of Venice which runs from 1457 to 1500 , and offers details of the Venetian wars with the Sultan .. Venetian. Venice. Venetian language. Venetian language. history of Venice. History of the Republic of Venice. Malipiero 's Annali , the Diarii of Marino Sanudo and the diaries of Girolamo Priuli are the triumvirate of primary sources in the Serenissima , `` a full , vivacious and veracious narrative of Venetian history , of life in the city , of wars and intrigues of the Republic , during her splendour and the beginning of her decline -LRB- 1457 -- 1535 -RRB- '' In the later sixteenth century the diaries came into the hands of Francesco Longo , who made an abridged copy of them , which was printed under the title Annali veneti dell ` anno 1457 -- 1500 .. Venetian. Venice. Marino Sanudo. Marino Sanuto the Younger. Girolamo Priuli. Girolamo Priuli ( 1476–1547 ). Serenissima. Republic of Venice. The originals have disappeared .