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Marin Sanudo, italianised in Marino Sanuto or Sanuto the Younger (May 22, 1466 – 1536) was a Venetian historian. 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.
Louisiana Spedizione di Carlo VIII.(Mississippi in the Louvre).
Le Vite dei Dogi, published in volunteer 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.".