SANUDO, MARINO the YOUNGER. — Venetian historian, born in Venice on 22 May 1466, died there on 4 April 1536; he took part in various offices of the Republic’s government without ever reaching high magistracies, entering the Senate in 1498. He was several times Savio agli ordini and in 1501 also served as Quaestor in Verona.
More a skilled compiler of documents and chronicler than a true historian, Sanudo’s major work, which admirably serves not only the history of Venice but that of all Italy, consists of the famous Diarii covering the years from 1496 to 1533. These were already preserved with jealous care in the Biblioteca segreta and were published in 58 volumes with a prefatory volume (Venice 1879-1902), in which many documents are reproduced verbatim. His first work was an Itinerarium cum syndicis terrae firmae (Padua 1847 and 1881). From 1493 he compiled the Vite dei Dogi (RIS, XXII, pp. 405-1252; in the 2nd ed. it appears in part 4, edited by G. Monticolo); these included in part the Commentari della guerra di Ferrara (1482-84) (Venice 1829); his history of the Expedition of Charles VIII into Italy was published by R. Fulin in 1873. He also left a treatise De origine, vita et magistratibus urbis Venetae. A Sommario di storia veneziana remained in manuscript.