Marino Sanudo the Elder
Marino Sanudo the Elder (also Marino Sanudo or Sanuto of Torcello ; * around 1260, † 1338 ) was a Venetian statesman and geographer .
Sanudo is best known for his lifelong efforts to promote the crusades to liberate the holy places in Palestine from Muslim rule. For this purpose he wrote his book Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis as a handout for the crusaders.
Life
Sanudo came from an old “ tribunician ” or “apostolic” family in Venice. One of his relatives was Marco Sanudo , a nephew of Doge Andrea Dandolo , participant in the 4th Crusade, conqueror of Paros and Naxos , and self-proclaimed Duca of the Duchy of Archipelagos , which he founded there.
Marin Sanudo himself was a well-traveled man. According to his own statements, he knew the countries of the Balkans, the Peloponnese, the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, he traveled to Syria, Cilicia, the Egyptian coast, France, Flanders, northern Germany and Denmark and knew the cities of Alexandria, Constantinople, Avignon, Bruges and Sluis , Hamburg, Lübeck, Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund, Greifswald and Stettin.
He was friends with the Venetian patrician Guglielmo Bernari di Furvo, who had traveled to Muslim countries and reached Mongolia. He was in contact with the bishop Hieronymus von Kaffa , who resided in the Crimea.
Liber secretorum fidelium crucis
The first version of his book was written between 1306 and 1307 when he presented the manuscript to Pope Clement V as a practical handbook for the crusaders. Sanudo added two more books to this Liber secretorum , which he wrote between 1312 and 1321. This book, which includes a world map as well as maps of Palestine, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the coast of Western Europe and etc. a. Contained city maps of Jerusalem , Acre , Antioch and Krak des Chevaliers , he submitted to another Pope, John XXII. , always with the same goal of starting a reconquest of Palestine. A second handwriting went to the French king, from whom Sanudo expected the political leadership of the company. The book is an important source for the history of cartography because of the large number of porto maps and city maps it contains. Most of the maps in the Liber secretorum were made by Pietro Vesconte , a cartographer and publisher of great portolans who worked in Venice . In the following time they appear in several geographical books and name both Sanudo and Vesconte as authors. The first complete printing of the work took place in 1611 by Jacques Bongars (1554-1612) in Hanover within the Gesta Dei per Francos . This edition was reprinted by the University of Toronto Press in 1972, along with a foreword by Joshua Prawer. In the 15th century, Marino Sanudo the Younger translated the Latin text into Venetian.
literature
- Friedrich Kunstmann: "Studies on Marino Sanudo the Elder, with an appendix to his unprinted letters", in: Treatises of the historical class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Vol. 7. Munich 1855, pp. 695–819.
- Marino Sanudo Torsello : The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross. Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis. Transl. And ed. by: Peter Lock. Farnham, Ashagate 2011, ISBN 978-0-7546-3059-3 (Crusade Texts in Translation.)
- Sanuto, Marino, the elder . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 24 : Sainte-Claire Deville - Shuttle . London 1911, p. 196 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sanudo, Marino the Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sanutus, Marinus; Sanudo, Marin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venetian statesman and geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1260 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1338 |