Marino Sanuto the Elder

Marino Sanudo the Elder, Marino Sanudo or even Sanuto of Torcello (* 1260, † 1338 ) was a Venetian statesman and geographer.

Sanudo is mainly known for his lifelong efforts to communicate the Crusades to free the Holy Places in Palestine from Muslim rule. To this end, he wrote his book Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis as a handout for the Crusaders.

Life

Sanudo came from one of the old " tribunician " or " apostolic " Venetian family. One of his relatives was Marco Sanudo, nephew of the Doge Andrea Dandolo, participants in the 4th crusade, conqueror of Paros and Naxos, and self-proclaimed Duke of the Duchy of Archipelagos, which he had founded there.

Marin Sanudo himself was a well-traveled man. According to his own statements, he knew the countries of the Balkans, the Peloponnesus, the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, he traveled through Syria, Cilicia, the Egyptian coast, France, Flanders, northern Germany and Denmark and knew the cities of Alexandria, Constantinople Opel, Avignon, Bruges and Sluis, Hamburg, Lübeck, Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund, Greifswald and Szczecin.

He was friends with the Venetian patrician Guglielmo di Bernari Furvo, the Muslim countries had traveled and had come to Mongolia. He was in touch with the Bishop Jerome of Kaffa, who resided in the Crimea.

Liber secretorum fidelium crucis

The first version of his book was 1306-1307, when he presented the manuscript to Pope Clement V as a practical handbook for the Crusaders. This Liber secretorum Sanudo added to two other books he has written 1312-1321. This book, a world map, maps of Palestine, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the coast of Western Europe and among other things, Maps of Jerusalem, Akkar, Antioch and contained by the Krak des Chevaliers, he presented another pope, John XXII. , In the same old goal of setting a re- conquest of Palestine in motion. A second manuscript went to the French king, awaited the political leadership of the company from the Sanudo. Because of the many included portolan and maps, the book is an important source for the history of cartography. The maps of the Liber secretorum probably originate mainly from the active in Venice cartographers and publishers of large postage Lanen, Pietro Vesconte. Immerse yourself in the following time in several geographical books and call there as author of both Sanudo and Vesconte. The first complete printing of the work was carried out in 1611 by Jacques Bongars ( 1554-1612 ) of Hanover within the Gesta Dei per Francos. This edition was published in 1972 in the University of Toronto Press as an eBook along with a foreword by Joshua Prawer. In the 15th century Marino Sanudo the Younger translated the Latin text into the Venetian.