L' OCCIO (TIME OF LEISURE)

Παρουσίαση

In the closing years of the seventeenth century an aged Cretan refugee called Zuanne Papadopoli, who had fled from his homeland at the time of its conquest by the Ottomans, sat down in his adopted city of Padua to write his memoirs. He could never have imagined that centuries later his writings would be the subject of lively interest and extreme curiosity among researchers on the history and culture of Crete under Venetian rule. The reason for this special interest is that although numerous official archival sources have survived from this historical period, thanks to the intense bureaucratic activity which the Serenissima's state agencies had developed, research on the private life of the people of this Venetian-ruled Greek island has had to be based largely on the registers of Cretan notaries, which for all their richness and chronological breadth, deal only with certain aspects of social reality. Papadopoli's memoirs are a historical document of a different type, offering a wealth of information exceptionally useful for research into the Venetian past of the Great Island. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

PREFACE by Professor Chryssa Maltezou
PROLEGOMENA
INTRODUCTION
SYMBOLS USED IN THE EDITION AND TRANSLATION TRANSLITERATION AND ORTHOGRAPHY
L'OCCIO (TIME OF LEISURE)
COMMENTARY
APPENDIX I: Money and prices in "L'Occio"
APPENDIX II: Varieties of vines and wines
GLOSSARY
INDEX OF GREEK WORDS
INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES AND BUILDINGS
INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES
INDEX OFTOPICS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PLATES
1. Candia: The harbour area
2. Candia: The town centre
3. The harbour fortress
4. The Moresini Fountain
5. The Bembo Fountain
6. Cretan bagpipes (ascomadura)
7. A wine-press building (follador, pattitiri)
8. Venetian coins for use in Crete
9. The manuscript, f. ii r.
10. The manuscript, f. 59r.
TOPOGRAPHICAL PLAN:
Candia 1607, fortifications and major buildings
MAP:
Crete (showing place-names mentioned in L' Occio)