Benjamin Arbel

Maps of the world for ottoman princes? Further evidence and questions concerning the mappamondo of Hajji Ahmed'

Abstract The discovery of an unpublished document is here used to propose a new interpretation of the production in Venice of world maps for Ottoman clients. It is suggested that three Ottoman princes had been interested in acquiring maps in Venice in the early 1550s as part of their struggle for succession to Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, and that these maps were different from the famous Hajji Ahmed map, prepared by Giacomo Gastaldi. It is also suggested that the persons involved in creating these maps did not (as previously asserted) include the Venetian publisher Giustinian, whose later attempt to publish Gastaldis map was blocked for political, and not only religious, considerations.

Venice’s Maritime Empire in the Early Modern Period

The various terms used to denote Venices overseas possessions, such as terre da mar , stato di mare , stato da mar , stati oltremare , as well as other similar terms encountered in early modern sources, express the predominantly maritime character of the part of the Venetian state. The cultural difference between the Italian dominions and Venices Hellenic territories, even those, such as Crete, where Venetian settlers had lived for several centuries, were of no less significance. No systematic chronology of Venetian acquisitions and losses in its early modern overseas empire exists, which may account for the numerous impressionistic affirmations regarding the stato da mar . With the passing of time, two patterns of self rule one legitimate and institutionalized and the other illegal and informal but nevertheless effective came to regulate the lives of Venetian subjects in the Republics overseas colonies. Keywords: maritime empire; stato da mar ; Venetian state; Venices overseas territories

The Book of Michael of Rhodes: a fifteenth-century maritime manuscript

luglio–27 ottobre 1301) [CSFS 32] Genoa, Università di Genova, Istituto di Medievistica, 1982; R. Pavoni, Notai Genovesi in Oltremare: Atti rogati a Cipro da Lamberto di Sambuceto (gennaio–agosto 1302) [CSFS 49] Genoa, Università di Genova, Istituto di Medievistica, 1987. 4. M.Balard,NotaiGenovesi inOltremare:Atti rogati aCipro daLamberto di Sambuceto (11ottobre 1296–23 giugno 1299) [CSFS 39] Genoa, Università di Genova, Istituto di Medievistica 1983; M. Balard,Notai Genovesi in Oltremare: Atti rogati a Cipro da Lamberto di Sambuceto (31marzo 1304–19 luglio 1305; 4 gennaio–12 luglio 1307), Giovanni de Rocha (3 agosto 1308–14 marzo 1310) [CSFS 43] Genoa, Università di Genova, Istituto di Medievistica, 1984. 5. M. Balard, W. Duba and Ch. Schabel, Actes de Famaguste du notaire génois Lamberto di Sambuceto (décembre 1299-septembre 1300) [Sources et Études de l’Histoire de Chypre 70] Nicosia, Centre de Recherche Scientifique de Chypre, 2012. 6. Doc. II, 8. It is important to remember that the Devetum Alexandrie was in force in Genoa, and reinstated in the Devetum Alexandrie et Barberie issued in 1340 by Simon Boccanegra. Fines or excommunications were issued to anyone who breached this embargo by taking strategic materials to these cities (wood, ships, weapons, iron or slaves). See G. Petti Balbi, ‘Deroghe papali al “devetum” sul commercio con l’Islam’, Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato 32 (1972): 521–33; G. Petti Balbi, Simon Boccanegra e la Genova del Trecento, Naples, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane 1995, 395–6. G. Petti Balbi, Mercanti e nationes nelle Fiandre: I genovesi in età bassomedievale [GISEM 7] Pisa, ETS, 1996, 19–22. 7. Lazzarino di Nervi took part in the expedition of a small fleet, captained by Damiano Cattaneo, which arrived in Cyprus in April 1373, a few months before the famous expedition of a 36-ship fleet, captained by Pietro Campofregoso, which reached the island in October 1373. The last deed was written in Naples, in July 1374, during Lazzarino’s return voyage to Genoa. 8. The will of Gregorio de Palodio, the podestà and leader of Famagusta. 9. We have evidence of a second voyage overseas: in 1398, Giovanni Bardi travelled to Chios, producing a collection of 62 deeds. See D. Gioffrè, ‘Atti rogati a Chio nella seconda metà del XIV secolo’. Bulletin de l’Institut Historique Belge de Rome 34 (1962): 350–404.

La république de Venise face à la conquête ottomane de l’État mamelouk

This chapter talks about the Republic of Venice facing the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk State. The case of the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk State provides us with an opportunity to appreciate the significant contribution of the Venetian sources to the history of Islamic rising. Keywords: Republic of Venice; Ottoman; Mamluk State

What happened to Famagusta's Jews following the Ottoman Conquest of 1571?

This study is an attempt to follow the fortunes of several members of the Jewish community of Famagusta following the conquest of this town by the Ottomans in 1571. It is firstly based on a comparison between a list of family heads found in Venetian records of the late 1560s and another list included in a census carried out after the Ottoman takeover of the same town. This comparison is completed by Venetian judicial and administrative records of the 1570s and by other contemporary sources of various provenances, which are helpful for tracking down the personal fates of these people. The results of this enquiry finally serve for some tentative conclusions regarding Jewish patterns of migration within and around Venices overseas empire.

Trading Nations: Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean.

This book deals with the intricate, and often uneasy relationship which developed between Jews and Venetians, as they struggled to cope with the changing realities of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world. The fruit of many years of research in the Venetian archives, this volume explores undiscovered aspects of Mediterranean history regarding the involvement of Venetians and Jews in the international maritime trade, Venetian attitudes towards Jews, the impact of Venetian-Ottoman contention on the relationship between Jews and Venetians, and more. The unfolding of this relationship reveals new perspectives on the history of sixteenth-century Venice, on the social and economic history of the Jews, and on the history of the Ottoman Empire in its prime.