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SANUTO (or SANUTO), See also: born on the 22nd of May 1466
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See also: Left an See also: orphan at the age of eight, he lost his See also: fortune owing to the See also: bad management of his See also: guardian, and was for many years hampered by want of means
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In 1483 he accompanied his See also: cousin Mario, who was one of the three sindici inquisitori deputed to hear appeals from the decisions of the rettori, on a tour through See also: Istria and the mainland provinces, and he wrote a minute account of his experiences in his See also: diary
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Wherever he went he sought out learned men, examined See also: libraries, and copied inscriptions
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The result of this journey was the publication of his Itinerario in terra ferma and a collection of Latin inscriptions
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Sanuto was elected a member of the Maggior Consiglio when only twenty years old (the legal age was twenty-five) solely on account of his merit, and he became a senator in 1498; he noted down everything that was said and done in those assemblies and obtained permission to examine the secret archives of the See also: state
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He collected a See also: fine library, which was especially See also: rich in See also: MSS. and See also: chronicles both Venetian and See also: foreign, including the famous Altino See also: chronicle, the basis of early Venetian See also: history, and became the friend of all the learned men of the See also: day, Aldo Mannzio dedicating to him his See also: editions of the See also: works of Angelo Poliziano and of the poems of Ovid
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It was a See also: great grief to Sanuto when See also: Andrea Navagero was appointed the official historian to continue the history of the republic from the point where Marco Antonio Sabellico left off, and a still greater See also: mortification when, Navagero having died in 1529 without executing his task, Pietro See also: Bembo was appointed to succeed him
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Finally in 1531 the value of his See also: work was recognized by the senate, which granted him a pension of 150 gold ducats per annum
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He died
in 1533
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His chief works are the following: Itinerario in terra ferma, published by M
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Rawdon See also: Brown in 1847; I commentariz
See also: delta guerra di See also: Ferrara, an account of the war between the Venetians and Ercole d'See also: Este, published in Venice in 1829; La Spedizione di Carlo VIII
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(MS. in the Louvre); Le Vile dei Dogi, published in vol. xxii. of See also: Muratori's Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (1733); the Diarii, his most important work, which cover the See also: period from the 1st of See also: January 1496 to See also: September 1533, and fill 58 volumes
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The publication of these records was begun by Rinaldo Fulin, in collaboration with Federigo Stefani, Guglielmo Berchet, and Niccold Barozzi; the last See also: volume was published in Venice in 1903
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Owing to the relations of the Venetian republic with the whole of See also: Europe and the See also: East it is practically a universal chronicle, and is an invaluable source of information for all writers on that period
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