Index

Acre: bailo, 1;
Church of St Mark, 1;
Fourth Crusade, 1;
siege (1291), 1;
spice market, 1;
Adoldo, Nicolo, 1
Adriatic Sea: Ascension Day ceremony, 1, 2;
Byzantine empire, 1;
geography, 1;
map, 1;
Venice’s position, 1;
agriculture, 1
Alexandria: advice for voyage, 1;
architecture, 1;
decline, 1;
port, 1;
prices, 1;
Alexius III Angelus, Emperor, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Alexius IV Angelus, Emperor:
appeal to crusaders, 1;
arrival at Constantinople, 1;
claim to throne, 1;
coronation as co-emperor, 1;
death, 1;
journey to Constantinople, 1;
relationship with crusaders, 1;
siege of Constantinople, 1
Alexius V Ducas (Murtzuphlus),
Emperor: coup, 1;
death, 1;
death of Alexius, 1;
flight, 1;
negotiations with crusaders, 1;
ultimatum to crusaders, 1
Andrew of Durboise, 1
Andronicus I, Emperor, 1
Andronicus II Palaeologus, Emperor, 1
Andronicus IV Palaeologus, Emperor, 1
Angiolello, Giovan-Maria, 1, 2, 3
Antonello (Sicilian), 1
Antonio of Candia, 1
Anzio, sea battle (1378), 1, 2
Apanomeriti, Giacomo, 1
see also Senza
Al-Ashraf Khalil, Sultan, 1
Baldwin II, Emperor, 1
Baldwin of Flanders, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Barbari, Jacopo de’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Barbarigo family, 1
Barbo, Pantaleone, 1
Barozzi family, 1
Basilicata, Francesco, 1
Baybars, Sultan, 1
Bayezit, II, Sultan, 1, 2, 3, 4
Beirut: architecture 1;
Church of St Mark, 1;
fall, 1;
fondaci, 1;
spice market, 1;
Bellini, Giovanni, 1
Bessarion, Cardinal, 1
Bianco, Toma, 1
Black Sea: Black Death, 1;
Byzantine empire, 1;
Fourth Crusade, 1;
geography, 1;
Ottoman advance, 1;
Bon, Giovanni, 1
Boniface VIII, Pope, 1
Boniface of Montferrat:
arrival at Constantinople, 1;
arrival at Venice, 1;
candidate for throne, 1;
death, 1;
offered throne, 1;
sale of Crete, 1
Bosphorus (see also Dardanelles, Gallipoli): conflict between Venice and Genoa, 1;
geography, 1;
naval battle (1352), 1;
Venetian fleet, 1;
Bragadino, commissioner, 1
Brazza, 1
Brenner Pass, 1
Bruges:
architecture, 1;
Venetian–Genoese conflict, 1;
woollen cloth trade, 1
Buondelmonti (Florentine priest) 1
Butrinto, 1
Byzantine Empire:
Byzantium, see Constantinople
Cabral, Andrea, 1
Caffa:
destruction, 1;
siege, 1;
Venetian ships seized, 1
Cairo:
spies, 1;
Calbo, Alvise, 1
Callergis, Giorgio (Cretan rebel 1368), 1
Callergis, Giorgio (Cretan rebel 1416), 1, 2
Callergis, Leo, 1
Canal, Cristoforo da, 1
Canaletto, 1
Candia:
arrest of duke, 1;
ducal court, 1;
earthquake, 1;
fleet, 1;
harbour tax, 1;
prostitutes, 1;
ship repairs, 1;
siege (1276), 1;
slave trade, 1;
cannons:
bombardment of Brondolo, 1;
galleons, 1;
introduction of 1;
Ottoman siege of Constantinople, 1;
Ottoman siege of Lepanto, 1;
Ottoman siege of Modon, 1;
Carpaccio, 1
Carrara, Francesco, lord of Padua, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Casola, Pietro, Canon:
on Cretan ceremonial, 1;
pilgrimages, 1;
on Venetian arsenal, 1;
on Venetian trading, 1;
on Venice, 1
Cassiodorus, 1
Catalans:
ports, 1;
withdrawal, 1
Chioggia:
surrender by Genoese–Paduan forces, 1;
Venetian campaign to recapture, 1;
Choniates, Niketas:
on appointment of Kannavos as emperor, 1;
on arrival of Fourth Crusade, 1;
on coup of Murtzuphlus, 1;
on Dandolo, 1;
on death of Alexius IV, 1;
on escape from Constantinople, 1;
on flight of Murtzuphlus, 1;
on mob attack on Italian community, 1;
Chortatzis family, 1
Civrano, Andriolo, 1
Collegio, 1
Columbus, Christopher, 1, 2, 3, 4
Commynes, duke of, 1
Constantine the Great, Emperor, 1, 2
Constantine Lascaris, Emperor, 1
Constantine XI Palaeologus, Emperor, 1
Constantinople (see also Bosphorus, Byzantine Empire, Dardanelles, Galata, Gallipoli): arsenal, 1, 2;
Black Death, 1;
Church of St Mark, 1;
coup (Murtzuphlus), 1;
customs revenues, 1;
docks, 1;
dynastic struggles, 1;
Fourth Crusade assault (1204), 1;
Fourth Crusade fleet attacked, 1;
Latin Kingdom of, 1;
naval battle (1352), 1;
Ottoman blockade, 1;
Ottoman coinage, 1;
papal project to recapture, 1;
Pisan trade, 1;
reconquest (1261), 1;
spice market, 1;
Contarini, Andrea, Doge: Chioggia
expedition, 1;
fall of Chioggia, 1;
recapture of Chioggia, 1;
return to Venice, 1;
Contarini, Girolamo, 1
Cook, William (Il Coqquo), 1
Corfu:
bailo, 1;
refugees, 1;
religion, 1;
Corner, Andreas, 1
Corner family, 1
Coron:
Cretan rebels, 1;
harbour, 1;
Ottoman capture, 1;
pilgrim route, 1;
Venetian trade, 1
cottimo (common insurance fund), 1
Covilha, Pero da, 1
Crete:
Black Death, 1;
Byzantine empire, 1;
geography, 1;
maps, 1;
pilgrim route, 1;
population, 1;
refugees, 1;
shipbuilding, 1;
surrender (1669), 1;
Tenedos population resettled, 1;
Venetian fleet, 1;
Venetian purchase, 1;
Venetian trade, 1
Croats, 1
crusades:
absolution of sins, 1;
arrival of crusaders for Fourth Crusade, 1;
Constantinople attack and conquest, 1;
Constantinople expedition, 1;
Constantinople in flames, 1;
Constantinople plans, 1;
excommunication of crusaders, 1;
French–Hungarian (1396), 1;
influence on European tastes, 1;
payment for Fourth Crusade, 1;
Smyrna (1344), 1;
Third, 1;
Venetian preparations for Fourth Crusade, 1;
naval battle (1298), 1
Cyprus:
Cretan rebellion, 1;
decline, 1;
Genoese seizure, 1;
king, 1;
Lusignan rule, 1;
Magna wreck, 1;
map, 1;
Ottoman threat, 1;
pilgrim route, 1;
trading hub, 1;
Venetian acquisition, 1;
Venetian loss, 1;
da Gama, Vasco, 1
da Legge, Benedetto, 1
da Priuli, Francesco, 1
Dalmatia, Dalmatian coast:
emigrants, 1;
food supplies, 1;
geography, 1;
pirates, 1;
recruitment of infantry mercenaries, 1;
responses to Napoleon, 1;
trade route, 1;
Dandolo, Andrea, admiral, 1
Dandolo, Andrea, chronicler and Doge, 1, 2
Dandolo, Enrico, Doge:
advice on appointment of emperor, 1;
appearance and character, 1;
background, 1;
blindness, 1;
departure from Venice, 1;
election as doge, 1;
leadership of Fourth Crusade, 1;
negotiations with Alexius, 1;
negotiations with Murtzuphlus, 1;
pope’s view of, 1;
proposal to attack Zara, 1;
proposal to divert crusade to Constantinople, 1;
relics from Constantinople, 1;
voyage to Corfu, 1;
Zara negotiations, 1
Dandolo, Leonardo, duke, 1
Dandolo, Marino, 1
Dandolo, Ranieri, 1
Dardanelles:
Ottoman fleet, 1;
Venetian expedition, 1;
Dario, Giovanni, 1
della Scala, Brunezzo, 1
della Turca, Rosso, 1
Delmedego, Mordechai, 1
Delos, 1
Dias, Bartolomeu, 1
Diedo, Pietro, 1
doges, 1;
procession, 1;
see also Senza
Dolfin, Piero, 1
Domenico the merchant, 1
Donato, Andrea, 1
Doria, Lamba, 1
Doria, Pietro:
Dalmatian campaign, 1;
death, 1;
Venetian embassy to, 1;
Venetian encirclement of, 1
Durazzo, 1
Easter, 1
Egypt: Fourth Crusade, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
motifs, 1;
mummies, 1;
see also Alexandria, Cairo, Mamluks
Emico of Hungary, 1
Emo, Pietro, 1
Eugene IV, Pope, 1
Fabri, Felix:
on calms at sea, 1;
on deaths at sea, 1;
on galley slaves, 1;
on negotiating fares, 1;
on return to Venice, 1;
on spice trade, 1;
on underwater repairs, 1
Falier, Ordelafo, 1
Faliero, Marino, Doge, 1
Faliero, Paolo, 1
Florence, Florentines:
Byzantine appeal, 1;
colonies, 1;
feudal structure, 1;
food supplies, 1;
population, 1;
war with Venice, 1
fondaci (residential complexes), 1, 2, 3, 4
Freschi, Zacharia di, 1
Gabriele de Mussis, 1
Galata: European community, 1;
Venetian assault, 1
galeotti (oarsmen), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Ottoman fleet, 1;
Ottoman invasion fleet, 1;
sack of, 1;
Venetian strategy, 1
Garzoni family, 1
Genghis Khan (Temuchin), 1
Genoa, Genoese:
Acre, 1;
Chioggia capture, 1;
Chioggia forces besieged, 1;
Chioggia siege, 1;
Chioggia surrender, 1;
colonies, 1;
Constantinople fall (1453), 1;
Cyprus, 1;
exploration, 1;
First Crusade, 1;
food supply, 1;
geography, 1;
population, 1;
Treaty of Nymphaion, 1;
Gestus de Boemia, 1
Ghisi family, 1
Gilles, Pierre, 1
Giovanni of Zara, 1
Giustinian, Nicolo, 1
glass:
Tyre, 1;
workers, 1
Golden Book, 1
Golden Bull (1082), 1
grain:
Crete, 1;
Genoese supplies, 1;
Venetian trade, 1
Greece:
harbours, 1;
Latin kingdoms, 1;
Pesaro’s raids, 1;
Venetian trade, 1
Grimaldi family, 1
Grimani, Antonio, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Grimani family, 1
gunpowder, 1
Haifa, 1
Hawkwood, Sir John, 1
Horace, 1
Hugh of Saint-Pol, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Hungary:
crusade against Ottomans, 1;
crusade planned, 1;
Mongols, 1;
Venetian plan to assassinate king, 1;
Ibn Battuta, 1
Ibn Iyas, 1
Innocent III, Pope:
denunciation of crusaders over Zara, 1;
funds for Fourth Crusade, 1;
launch of Fourth Crusade, 1;
letter to Dandolo, 1;
messages from crusaders, 1;
response to sack of Constantinople, 1;
warning to crusaders not to attack Zara, 1
Ios, 1
Isaac II Angelus, Emperor: accession, 1;
defence against mob, 1;
Saladin relationship, 1;
Islam:
fall of Acre, 1;
Fourth Crusade, 1;
Mamluk armies, 1;
Jacopo della Castellana, 1
Jaffa, 1
Jews:
Candia community, 1;
Galata settlement, 1;
Tyre artisans, 1;
John V Palaeologus, Emperor, 1, 2, 3
John Mesarites, 1
Julius Caesar, 1
Justinian, Emperor, 1
Ladislas of Hungary, 1
Languschi, Giacomo de’, 1
legal system:
Venetian, 1;
Venetian maritime code, 1
Leonardo da Vinci, 1
Lepanto:
harbour, 1;
map, 1;
Ottoman base, 1;
Venetian acquisition, 1
Lesina, island of, 1
Lipomano, bank of, 1
Longo, Geronimo, 1
Loredan, Andrea, 1
Loredan, Antonio, 1
Loredan, Jacopo, 1
Loredan, Pietro, 1
Loredo, fortress, 1
Lorenzo de Monacis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Louis, Count of Blois, 1
Louis, king of Hungary, 1