Marino Sanudo
Marino Sanudo (also Marin Sanudo (il Giovane) or Sanuto , German Marino Sanudo the Younger ; * May 22, 1466 in Venice ; † April 4, 1536 ibid) was an Italian historian, writer and diary writer. He is referred to as Sanudo the Younger to distinguish it from the 14th century traveler and writer of the same name Marino Sanudo the Elder (1260-1338), who wanted to revive the idea of the Crusades .
Life
Marin Sanudo was born in Venice in 1466 in the parish of San Giacomo dall'Orio. The family owned a palace on the Grand Canal , where the Fontego dei Turchi is now.
Marin's father, Leonardo Sanudo, Senator of the Republic, passed away when Marin Sanudo was only ten years old. The boy was raised by his mother and uncles, received a thorough humanistic education and, after completing his studies, initially entered the service of the republic. In 1483 the eighteen-year-old accompanied his cousin Mario, who was one of three Sindici inquisitori sent on a mission to the Terraferma , to Bergamo and Albona in Istria . On this occasion he began to keep a travel diary, from which later his book Itinerario per la terraferma veneziana emerged.
On October 23, 1484 he was admitted to the Grand Council , so he had the right to vote and the right to stand for the offices to which he could be elected according to the age limits.
Sanudo was friends with Aldo Manuzio and a member of the Accademia Aldina .
Fonts
At a young age, his extraordinary productivity as a writer was evident. He wrote u. a. various historical books, one on the Metamorphoses of Ovid , a book on the life of the Popes, and he translated the Liber secretorum fidelium crucis of his ancestor Marino Sanudo the Elder of the same name . In 1484 he wrote a chronicle of the war with Ferrara under the title Commentari della guerra di Ferrara . His Venetian chronicle Vite dei Dogi (1490–1494) became famous from the beginnings of the Venetian Republic under the legendary Doge Paoluccio Anafesto until his time. In 1495 he wrote La spedizione di Carlo VIII in Italia about the campaign of Charles VIII of France .
However, all of these works are only considered as preliminary work for his monumental diaries, the Diarii , in which he recorded the events in Venice from January 1496 to September 1533 on a daily basis. His frankness as a chronicler drove him out of the position of official historian of the republic. In 1531 it was not he but Pietro Bembo who received the state commission to write a history of Venice. The diaries were kept under lock and key by the Council of Ten and were lost until they were found in 1784. He was also unable to publish a single one of his other works during his lifetime.
The Vite dei Dogi were not accessible at all for a long time. They were considered lost until 1843, when Girolamo Contarini di San Trovaso (also called Corfù or degli Scrigni ) bequeathed his considerable library to the State Archives . However, of the three volumes that Sanudo mentions as “libri di la chronica” in his will, only two reappeared, namely the first and the third volume. In addition, the edition obtained by Muratori is considered incomplete and unreliable, as it was based on a manuscript from the 17th century that was considered the original at the time. It came from Modena and has significant shortcomings. Francesco Donà had a copy made of the first volume, which Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna acquired from the Balbi heirs. For the sake of ease of use, he divided the copy into two volumes (with the signature 1105 and 1106). The volumes are now in the Museo Correr (Mss. Cicogna 3768 and 3767). In terms of content, the two volumes go back to 1474. On Cicogna's advice, the second Modenese volume was also copied in 1840. The belief in an original vanished three years later when the two Contarini autographs appeared. With the help of Cod. Marciano It. VII. 125 (= 7460) the parts of the missing second volume for the years 1423 to 1482 could be added. The accuracy of this copy could be examined by comparing the surviving parts of Sanudo for the years 1474 to 1482, so that this manuscript is considered to be extremely reliable. Finally, other manuscripts were discovered, for example in the Biblioteca Estense and the British Library , but also in Venice itself. Sanudo, in turn, had numerous chronicles available, copies of which circulated within the aristocratic families and which he sometimes explicitly cites as a source base.
expenditure
- Rinaldo Fulin (ed.): La spedizione di Carlo VIII in Italia, raccontata da Marin Sanudo. Venezia 1873.
- Angela Caracciolo Aricò (ed.): De origine, situ et magistratibus urbis Venetae, ovvero La Citta di Venezia (1493–1530). Istituto Cisalpino, La Goliardica 1980 (critical edition).
- Diarii , ed. by Fulin, Stefani, Barozzi, Berchet, Allegri, 56 volumes, Venice 1879–1902; Excerpt ed. by Paolo Margaroli, 1977.
- Angela Caracciolo Aricò, Chiara Frison (eds.): Marin Sanudo il Giovane: Le vite dei Dogi 1423–1474 , 2 volumes, Venezia La Malcontenta, Venice 1999–2004 (critical edition). ( Digitized, Vol. 1 , Google Books, Vol. 2 )
literature
- Christiane Neerfeld: "Historia per forma di Diaria". Venetian contemporary chronicle around 1500 . Diss. Bonn 2001, pp. 27-43. Also called "Historia per forma diaria". La cronachistica veneziana contemporanea a cavallo tra il Quattro e il Cinquecento (= Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti. Classe di scienze morali, lettere ed arti. Memorie , 114). Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia 2006, ISBN 88-88143-67-X
- Marie Viallon-Schoneveld: Infortune et fortune d'un historiographe vénitien: Marin Sanudo . In: Marie Viallon-Schoneveld (ed.): L'histoire et les historiens au XVIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Puy-en-Velay. Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-86272-219-7 , pp. 27–41 ( online ; PDF; 198 KB).
- Şerban Marin: Moldavia and Wallachia in Marino Sanudo's Diaries (I: 1496-1500) , in: Revista Arhivelor 2 (2010) 158-178.
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Remarks
- ↑ Angela Caraccolo Aricò (ed.): Le Vite dei Doge. 1423-1474 , Venice 1999, pp. VII-IX.
- ↑ Angela Caraccolo Aricò (ed.): Le Vite dei Doge. 1423-1474 , Venice 1999, p. XV.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sanudo, Marino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sanudo, Marin; Sanuto, Marino; Sanudo the Younger, Marino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian historian, politician and diary writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1466 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1536 |
| Place of death | Venice |