Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1849

SANUTO'S DOGES OF VENICE

By S.W.S. (Mickleham)

Sir,--The high value of your Journal as a repertory of interesting literary information, which without it might be lost to the world, is becoming daily more apparent from the number and character of your correspondents. You have my best wishes for its success. The communication of Sir FREDERICK MADDEN respecting the singular and obvious error in Marin Sanuto's *Lives of the Doges of Venice*, has renewed in me a desire for information which I have hitherto been unable to obtain; and I will, therefore, with your permission, put it here as a *Query*. Who was the foreigner who gave to the world th…

Topics: Historical Customs, Genealogy, Literature, Modern History

Locations: Venice, Modena, St. Proculus