Nicolò Barbaro
Nicolò Barbaro (* 1420; † 1494) was the son of the Venetian patrician family Barbaro and came to the besieged city as a ship doctor shortly before the siege of Christian Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 . He wrote a detailed diary - the Giornale dell'assedio di Constantinopoli 1453 (German: Diary of the Siege of Constantinople 1453 ) - with daily entries about the siege and the fall of the city. His eyewitness account is one of the most important sources on the fall of Constantinople to this day .
literature
- Nicolò Barbaro: " Diary of the Siege of Constantinople, 1453 ", translated from Italian into English by JR Jones, an Exposition-University Book, Exposition Press, New York, 1969
Web links
- The Siege of Constantinople (1453), according to Nicolo Barbaro - full text ( memento of December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) of the English translation of the 'Giornale' by John Melville-Jones (1969).
See also
Wikisource: Giornale dell'assedio di Costantinopoli 1453 - Excerpts from the edited original, published in 1856 (Venetian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barbaro, Nicolò |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ambassador of Venice in Constantinople during the siege by the Turks in 1453 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th century |