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See also:SANUTO (or SANUTO), See also:MARINO , the younger (1466-1533), Venetian historian, was the son of the senator, Leonardo Sanuto, and was See also:born on the 22nd of May 1466. See also:Left an See also:orphan at the See also:age of eight, he lost his See also:fortune owing to the See also:bad management of his See also:guardian, and was for many years hampered by want of means. In 1483 he accompanied his See also:cousin See also:Mario, who was one of the three sindici inquisitori deputed to hear appeals from the decisions of the rettori, on a tour through See also:Istria and the mainland provinces, and he wrote a See also:minute See also:account of his experiences in his See also:diary. Wherever he went he sought out learned men, examined See also:libraries, and copied See also:inscriptions. The result of this See also:journey was the publication of his Itinerario in terra ferma 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 See also:secret archives of the See also:state. He collected a See also:fine library, which was especially See also:rich in See also:MSS. and See also:chronicles both Venetian and See also:foreign, including the famous Altino See also:chronicle, the basis of See also:early Venetian See also:history, and became the friend of all the learned men of the See also:day, Aldo Mannzio dedicating to him his See also:editions of the See also:works of Angelo Poliziano and of the poems of See also:Ovid. It was a See also:great grief to Sanuto when See also:Andrea Navagero was appointed the See also:official historian to continue the history of the See also:republic from the point where Marco See also:Antonio Sabellico left off, and a still greater See also:mortification when, Navagero having died in 1529 without executing his task, Pietro See also:Bembo was appointed to succeed him. Finally in 1531 the value of his See also:work was recognized by the See also:senate, which granted him a See also:pension of 150 See also:gold ducats per annum. He died
in 1533.
His See also:chief works are the following: Itinerario in terra ferma, published by M. Rawdon See also: (MS. in the Louvre); Le Vile dei Dogi, published in vol. xxii. of See also:Muratori's Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (1733); the Diarii, his most important work, which See also:cover the See also:period from the 1st of See also:January 1496 to See also: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 See also:volume was published in Venice in 1903. Owing to the relations of the Venetian republic with the whole of See also:Europe and the See also:East it is practically a universal chronicle, and is an invaluable source of See also:information for all writers on that period. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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