Marino Sanuto the Younger

Marino Sanudo, Marin Sanudo or Sanuto also called Marino Sanudo the Younger ( May 22nd 1466 Venice, † April 4, 1536 ) was an Italian historian, writer and diarist.

Sanudo is known as Sanudo the Younger to distinguish him from the same traveler and writer of the 14th century: Marino Sanudo the Elder ( 1260-1338 ), who wanted to revive the idea of the Crusades.

Life

Marin Sanudo was born in 1466 in Venice in the parish of San Giacomo dall'Orio. The family owned a palace on the Grand Canal, where is the Fondaco dei Turchi today.

Marin's father Leonardo Sanudo, Senator of the Republic, died when Marin Sanudo was only ten years old. The boy was raised by his mother and uncles, received a thorough humanistic education and occurred after completion of his studies, first in the service of the Republic. 1483 accompanied the eighteen year old his cousin Mario, who was sent as one of three Sindici inquisitori to a mission on the Terraferma, Bergamo and after Albona in Istria. On this occasion he began to keep a travel diary, arose from the book later his Itinerary per la terraferma Veneziana.

On October 23, 1484 he was admitted to the Great Council, therefore, had the right to vote and stand for election for the offices to which he could be chosen according to the age limits.

Sanudo was friends with Aldo Manuzio and member of the Accademia Aldina.

Writings

From a young age, it turned out his extraordinary productivity as a writer. He wrote, inter alia, different historical books, a book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a book about the lives of the popes, and he translated the book Liber secretorum fidelium crucis his eponymous ancestors Marino Sanudo the Elder. In 1484 he wrote a chronicle of the war with Ferrara under the title commentari della guerra di Ferrara. Became famous for its Venetian chronicle Vite dei Dogi (1490-1494) from the beginnings of the Venetian Republic under legendary Doge Paoluccio Anafesto up to his time. About the campaign of Charles VIII of France in 1495 he wrote La spedizione di Carlo VIII in Italia.

All these works, however, apply only as a preliminary to his monumental diaries, the Diarii in which he daily events in Venice from January 1496 held until September 1533. His boldness as a chronicler brought him here to the place of the official historian of the Republic. 1531 was not he, but Pietro Bembo the state commission to draw up a history of Venice. The diaries were taken from the Council of Ten under lock and were lost until the discovery in 1784.

Expenditure

• La spedizione di Carlo VIII in Italia. Raccontata as Marin Sanudo e publicata by cura di Rinaldo Fuli. Venezia 1873.
• De origine, situ et magistratibus urbis Venetae, ovvero La Citta di Venezia ( 1493-1530 ). Critical Edition by Angela Caracciolo Aricò, Istituto Cisalpino, La Goliardica. In 1980.
• Diarii. Edited by Fulin, Stefani, Barozzi, Berchet, Allegri. 56 volumes. Venice from 1879 to 1902.

• Le vite de i Dogi. In: Scriptores Rerum Italicarum. Bd 22 Section 4 Edited by G. Monticolo, Città del Castello 1900.