Marco Barbaro

Marco Barbaro (* 1511 in Venice ; † 1570 ibid.), Called Il Gobbo (the hunchback), was a son of Marco Barbaro and Samaritana Badoer. He was a genealogist and author in Venice during the Renaissance .

Life

Marco Barbaro belonged to the aristocratic Barbaro family, one of the richest families in the Republic of Venice . In his works he dealt in particular with the aristocracy of Venice, which he described in Famiglie nobili Venete as a closed group at the end of the 13th century.

Barbaro wrote other works such as Arbori dei Patritii Veneti and Libro di Nozze . These writings were never printed, the surviving manuscripts are often used as sources in new studies on the Venetian nobility , but are not reliable for the period before around 1430. The family nobili venete , however, still judged Marco Foscarini in his Della letteratura veneziana from 1854, but also Karl Hopf 1855 as very reliable. Giammaria Mazzuchelli suspected that the first two of the four manuscripts known to him were lost.

He also annotated the report Giornale dell'assedio di Constantinopoli 1453 (German: Diary of the Siege of Constantinople 1453 ) of his relative Nicolò Barbaro and added two additional chapters that dealt with the time after the conquest of the city. This revised version was widely used (albeit under the name Nicolò Barbaros), was printed and translated into other languages ​​several times.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vindob. 6155 and 6156 from the Marco Foscarini collection.
2. ↑ John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano: Venice Reconsidered p. 70 (digitized, English)
3. ^ Venice State Archives , Miscellanea Codici, serie I, Storia veneta, codd. 894-898. The five-volume manuscript was copied by Antonio Maria Tasca and is also in the archive.
4. ↑ Stanley Chojnacki: Women and men in Renaissance Venice p. 328 (digitized, English)
5. ↑ z. B. Dieter Girgensohn : Church, politics and aristocratic government in the Republic of Venice at the beginning of the 15th century. Goettingen 1996.
6. ^ Marco Foscarini: Della letteratura veneziana. Venice 1854, pp. 199, 201.
7. ↑ Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences , Philosophical-Historical Class, Volume 16.1 (1855) p. 32.
8. ^ Giammaria Mazzuchelli: Gli scrittori d'Italia cioè notizie storiche e critiche intorno alle vite e agli scritti dei litterati italiani. Vol. 2.1. Brescia 1778, pp. 271f.
9. ↑ cf. Philippides / Hanak

literature

• Marios Philippides , Walter K. Hanak : The Siege and Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Historiography, Topography and Military Studies . Ashgate, Farnham (Burlington) 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-1064-5 , pp. 10-13 (English).