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A Venetian spy's account of the War of Candia : Emmanuel Mormori's Italian text with English translation and dossier of sources / edited and translated by Kiril Petkov.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Foundations.
- Foundations
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Mormori, Emmanuel.
- Turkey--History--Mehmed IV, 1648-1687.
- Turkey.
- Venice (Italy)--History--Turkish Wars, 1453-1571.
- Venice (Italy).
- Crete (Greece)--History--Venetian rule, 1204-1669.
- Crete (Greece).
- Genre:
- Translations
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (504 pages) : illustrations (colour), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2025
- Language Note:
- English translation with original Italian text.
- Biography/History:
- Petkov Kiril: Kiril Petkov is Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA. He has published several monographs and source editions in the field.
- Summary:
- This text is an eyewitness account of the crucial first five years of the War of Candia (1645-1669), also known as the Cretan War and Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War - the war between the Republic of Venice and her allies against the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States. It is a primary source for the longest Mediterranean conflict of the early modern age. Composed by Emmanuel Mormori, a hitherto obscure Greek Cretan nobleman, the text is accompanied by an extensive introduction focusing on the author, who appears to have been a Venetian intelligence agent in Ottoman-conquered Chania (in Crete), and, for a period of five years, became key to the Venetian war effort. The volume includes a dossier of documents illuminating this figure, culled from the collections of the State Archive of Venice.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The War of Candia
- Transcription and Translation
- DOSSIER
- A - Excerpt from Muazzo, Giovanni Antonio Muazzo, Fragmenti e memorie historiche del regno e guerra di Candia (1670), fols. 76r-81r.
- B - Emmanuel Mormori's Apology
- C - Record of the Surrender of Canea
- D - Excerpts from Memorabil historia della Città della Canea
- E - Emmanuel Mormori's Plan for Recovery of Canea
- F - Emmanuel Mormori as Potential Field Operative
- G - Excerpts from Dispatches of Venetian Commanders and Mormori's Intelligence Reports
- H - Zorzi Acchieli's Denunciation of Zorzi Mormori
- I - Nuptial Contract between Emmanuel Mormori and Pigi Meseri, June 6, 1644, Candia.
- J - Excerpts from the Inventory of Zorzi Mormori's Movables
- Bibliography
- Index of Names and Places.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80270-380-2
- 1-80270-381-0
- 9781802703801
- OCLC:
- 1545127655
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