The Deeds of Commander Pietro Mocenigo in Three Books

Language: English

Published by Italica Press Okt 2014, 2014

1599102951 / 9781599102955

Series: Book 22 of 25 - Medieval & Renaissance Texts

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Neuware - Coriolano Cippico (1425-93) was a Dalmatian nobleman from Trogir (Trau in modern Croatia), then part of the Venetian empire. He was a landowner, civil servant, humanist and military commander. From 1470 to 1474 he served as galley captain for a Venetian naval expedition in the eastern Mediterranean under the command of the future doge of Venice, Pietro Mocenigo.Cippico wrote 'The Deeds of Commander Pietro Mocenigo' in 1474/75. Its three books describe the campaign as Mocenigo's fleet engaged in a systematic depredation of the western Anatolian shoreline, helped suppress a political coup in Cyprus and seal the Venetian hold of the island, supported the Venetian diplomatic outreach to the lords of Karaman, the chief Ottoman adversaries in Anatolia, and provided crucial relief to the Venetian-held Albanian stronghold of Skodra (Scutari) besieged by Ottoman troops.Composed in an elegant humanist latin, 'The Deeds' offers a sophisticated eyewitness account of the Christian-Ottoman confrontation in the late fifteenth century. Besides its classicizing overtones, 'The Deeds' also makes astute and perceptive observations on the entangled relationship between Venice and the East. The brutality of war, the constant traffic in slaves and booty and the almost casual destruction of the ancient remains of Asia Minor form the backdrop to the expert diplomacy, crusade rhetoric, humanist discourse and cultural claims of the Venetian Republic. Cippico uses the language and tropes of the classical past, while the realities of combat and reprisal that he narrates give vivid testimony to the destruction of the last traces of that antiquity. Cippico provides one of the best narratives of how the empire of the Most Serene Republic actually worked.The present edition is the first English translation of 'The Deeds,' one of the finest pieces of Renaissance history writing, often and widely reprinted and much appreciated in its time but undeservedly forgotten until recently.Hardcover, 148 pages. Introduction, notes, bibliography. 20 illustrations, 3 maps.

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Title
The Deeds of Commander Pietro Mocenigo in Three Books
Author
Coriolano Cippico
Publisher
Italica Press Okt 2014
Publication year
2014
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Language
English
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1599102951
ISBN 13
9781599102955
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222x145x13 mm
Series
Book 22 of 25: Medieval & Renaissance Texts

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