A Venetian Spy’s Account of the War of Candia: Emmanuel Mormori’s Italian Text with English Translation and Dossier of Sources

Kiril Petkov

doi:10.2307/jj.34366979

Zusammenfassung

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.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage: 1/2025
Copyrightjahr: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-80270-210-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-80270-381-8
Verlag: Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe: Foundations
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 512
Produkttyp: Sammelband

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 68
The War of Candia: Transcription and Translation Kein Zugriff Seiten 69 - 374
1. A — Excerpt from Muazzo, Giovanni Antonio Muazzo, Fragmenti e memorie historiche del regno e guerra di Candia (1670), fols. 76r–81r. Kein Zugriff
2. B — Emmanuel Mormori’s Apology Kein Zugriff
3. C — Record of the Surrender of Canea Kein Zugriff
4. D — Excerpts from Memorabil historia della Città della Canea Kein Zugriff
5. E — Emmanuel Mormori’s Plan for Recovery of Canea Kein Zugriff
6. F — Emmanuel Mormori as Potential Field Operative Kein Zugriff
7. G — Excerpts from Dispatches of Venetian Commanders and Mormori’s Intelligence Reports Kein Zugriff
8. H — Zorzi Acchieli’s Denunciation of Zorzi Mormori Kein Zugriff
9. I — Nuptial Contract between Emmanuel Mormori and Pigi Meseri, June 6, 1644, Candia. Kein Zugriff
10. J — Excerpts from the Inventory of Zorzi Mormori’s Movables Kein Zugriff
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 486 - 496
Index of Names and Places Kein Zugriff Seiten 497 - 504

A Venetian Spy’s Account of the War of Candia

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