SANUTO (or SANUTO), MARINO

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SANUTO (or SANUTO), MARINO , the younger (1466-1533), Venetian historian, was the son of the senator, Leonardo Sanuto, and was born on the 22nd of May 1466. Left an orphan at the age of eight, he lost his fortune owing to the bad management of his guardian, and was for many years hampered by want of means. In 1483 he accompanied his

cousin

Mario

MARIO, GIUSEPPE, COUNT OF CANDIA (1810-1883)

, who was one of the three sindici inquisitori deputed to hear appeals from the decisions of the rettori, on a tour through Istria and the mainland provinces, and he wrote a minute account of his experiences in his diary. Wherever he went he sought out learned men, examined libraries, and copied

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

. The result of this journey was the publication of his Itinerario in terra ferma and a collection of Latin

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

. Sanuto was elected a member of the Maggior Consiglio when only twenty years old (the legal age was twenty-five) solely on account of his merit, and he became a senator in 1498; he noted down everything that was said and done in those assemblies and obtained permission to examine the

secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

archives of the state. He collected a fine library, which was especially rich in MSS. and chronicles both Venetian and foreign, including the famous Altino chronicle, the basis of early Venetian history, and became the friend of all the learned men of the day, Aldo Mannzio dedicating to him his editions of the works of Angelo Poliziano and of the poems of Ovid. It was a great grief to Sanuto when

Andrea

ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348)

Navagero was appointed the official historian to continue the history of the republic from the point where Marco Antonio Sabellico left off, and a still greater mortification when, Navagero having died in 1529 without executing his task, Pietro

Bembo

BEMBO, PIETRO (1470—1547)

was appointed to succeed him. Finally in 1531 the value of his

work

WORK

was recognized by the senate, which granted him a pension of 150 gold ducats per annum. He died
in 1533.
His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

works are the following: Itinerario in terra ferma, published by M. Rawdon Brown in 1847; I commentariz delta guerra di Ferrara, an account of the war between the Venetians and Ercole d'Este, published in Venice in 1829; La Spedizione di Carlo VIII. (MS. in the Louvre); Le Vile dei Dogi, published in vol. xxii. of

Muratori

MURATORI

's Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (1733); the Diarii, his most important

work

WORK

, which cover the period from the 1st of January 1496 to September 1533, and fill 58 volumes. The publication of these records was begun by Rinaldo Fulin, in collaboration with Federigo Stefani, Guglielmo Berchet, and Niccold Barozzi; the last volume was published in Venice in 1903. Owing to the relations of the Venetian republic with the whole of Europe and the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

it is practically a universal chronicle, and is an invaluable source of information for all writers on that period.

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