Dante Alighieri carried twelve 12-inch guns in only four turrets by adopting triple mountings. The arrangement produced a full twelve-gun broadside without the six twin turrets that the same barrel count would otherwise require. Russian designers later copied aspects of the Italian approach. Turret concentration was a separate innovation from the all-big-gun principle itself.
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Dante Alighieri's twelve-gun triple-turret broadside
Four triple turrets allowed Dante Alighieri to place twelve 12-inch guns in a compact main-battery arrangement that influenced later Russian work.