Het Arsenaal was iets anders, een voorbode van de toekomstige tijd. ###>So much so, that it was mentioned in Dante's "Inferno":The Arsenal's capacity for production was rare in a time when "most of Europe had no manufacturing abilities more efficient than the guild system, the slow and tradition-bound way craftsmen had of passing on skills to their sons or apprentices while monopolizing production and sale of craft pieces in a given region...