A Venetian Spy’s Account of the War of Candia

Emmanuel Mormori’s Italian Text with English Translation and Dossier of Sources
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80270-210-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 485 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Foundations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Petkov, Kiril

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Espionage, Loyalty, and Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean

The War of Candia: Transcription and Translation

Dossier:

A. Excerpt from Giovanni Antonio Muazzo, Fragmenti e memorie historiche del regno e guerra di Candia (1670)

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

J. Excerpts from the Inventory of Zorzi Mormori’s Movables

Bibliography

Index of Names and Places

Über Autor(innen)

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.