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Marino Sanuto the Younger

There is also a Marino Sanuto the Elder.

Marin Sanudo, italianised in Marino Sanuto or Sanuto the Younger (May 22, 14661536) was a Venetian

historian.

He was the son of the senator Leonardo Sanuto. Left an orphan at the age of

ten, 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, 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.

a page handwritten by Marin Sanudo

Wherever he went he sought out learned men,

examined libraries, and copied inscriptions. The result

of this journey was the publication of hisItinerario per

la terraferma veneziana and a collection of Latin

inscriptions. 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 archives

of the state. He collected a fine library, which was

especially rich in manuscripts 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 Manuzio 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 Navagero was

appointed the official historian to continue the history

of the republic
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Coat of arms on Sanudo Palace in Venice

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 was appointed to

succeed him. Finally in 1531 the valueof his work was recognized by the

senate, which granted him a pension of

150 gold ducats per annum. He died in

1536.

His chief works are the following:

Itinerario per la terraferma veneziana,

published by M. Rawdon Brown in

1847; I commentari delta guerra di

Ferrara, an account of the war

between the Venetians and Ercole I d'

Este, published in Venice in 1829; La

Spedizione di Carlo VIII.(MS. in theLouvre);Le Vite dei Dogi, published in

vol. xxii. of Muratori's Rerum

Italicarum Scriptores (1733); the

Diarii, his most important work, which

cover the period from 1 January 1496

to September 1533, and fill 58

volumes. The publication of these

records was begun by Rinaldo Fulin in

1879, 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 Eastit is practically a universal chronicle, and is an invaluable source of information for all writers on that period.

Sanuto played a role in placing the Venetian Jews in the first ever Jewish ghetto, as he stated in a speech in 1515, a

year before the ghetto's establishment: "I do not want to omit to relate an evil practice resulting with the continuing

contact with these Jews, who reside in great numbers in the cities. Formerly, they were not seen outside their houses

from palm Sunday until after Easter. Now till yesterday they were going about and it is a very bad thing, and no one

says anything to them, since we need them due to the wars and therefore do what they want."
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References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911).

Encyclopdia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
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