News from Negroponte: Politics, Popular Opinion, and Information Exchange in the First Decade of the Italian Press?^*

Abstract

The fall of Negroponte to the Turks in 1470 was one of the first events in European history to be recorded in print. This article examines a little-known cluster of more than a dozen texts published in the months after the colony’s fall by some of the earliest printers to work in Italy. These editions did not “break” the news to the Italian public but rather offered analysis and commentary to an already well-informed readership. Some catered to contemporary demands for vernacular political poetry, while others now reveal the extent to which Italian humanists attached themselves to the printing industry in its earliest years, often with ambiguous results”

Medieval Ship Graffiti from Amarynthos, Euboea, Greece

“…Nevertheless, their dating remains uncertain, thus it is difficult to accurately interpret them in an archaeological and historical context. Euboea (Venetian Negroponte) had maritime connections during this period, at the turn from the long Venetian occupation (1209-1470) to Ottoman rule, that are of great interest, and written sources tell of the struggle between the Venetians and Ottomans for the control of the Evripos straits and the island of Euboea (Meserve, 2006). The Amarynthos graffiti, found in very different contexts and sizes, could be related to Venetian or even Ottoman galleys stationed in the straits of Evripos.…”

Relatar la catástrofe en el Siglo de Oro

“…Véanse Dooley & Baron (eds. 2001), Rault (2002), Meserve (2006), Ettinghausen (2010), Arredondo (2011), Hermant (2011), Infelise (2012), Kagan (2012), Nider (2014), Rubio Árquez (2014. la polémica debida al encarcelamiento del rey enemigo.…”

Nicholas of Modruš and HisDe Bellis Gothorum: Politics and National History in the Fifteenth-Century Adriatic

“…74 For this reason, Benjamin Weber has recently singled out the expeditions of 1472 and 1473 as the first naval expeditions launched by the papacy that were not coordinated with a land offensive in the Balkans. 75 72 The 1472 expedition was launched in response to the shock caused by the fall of Venetian Negroponte to the Ottomans in 1470, on which, see Meserve, 2006. For the 1472 expedition, see Setton,Guglielmotti,.…”

“… 72 The 1472 expedition was launched in response to the shock caused by the fall of Venetian Negroponte to the Ottomans in 1470, on which, see Meserve, 2006. For the 1472 expedition, see Setton, 303–18; Guglielmotti, 342–72.…”