Marino Sanuto the Younger

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.

Wherever he went he sought out learned men,

examined libraries, and copied inscriptions. The result
of this journey was the publication of his Itinerario 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
a page handwritten by Marin Sanudo

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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 value
of his work was recognized by the
senate, which granted him a pension of
150 gold ducats per annum. He died in
1536.

Coat of arms on Sanudo Palace in Venice

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 the
Louvre); 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 East
it 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 articleincorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911).
Encyclopdia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

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