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A book on which I have been working far too long – The Greek Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio. Vol. 2:  Dispacci   from Candia, 1500-1...

15 th- century remains of fief boundary wall and tower at Myloi. It is easier to think about fief churches than fiefs, because w...

Frontispiece, I Fatti e le Prodezze di Manoli Blessi, Strathioto by Antonio Molino, 1561. Having seen two blogs in the past...

  Continuation of the commission from Doge Giovanni Mocenigo to Bartolomeo Minio, appointing him Captain of the Flanders Galleys. 12 A...

An earlier entry told about Bartolomeo Minio's disastrous voyage to Flanders with the trade muda , fleet, for 1485.  This en...

Crete, by Piri Re'is  From July 1500 through August 1502, Bartolomeo Minio was Venetian captain of Crete, which meant that he had...

North side of Panagia, in Nauplion, originally a 15th-century church, possibly the Franciscan church of S. Maria Val Verde. Possibly no...