Consideraţii asupra cronicii veneţianului Antonio Morosini
SOME CONSIDERATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE VENETIAN CHRONICLE OF ANTONIO MOROSINI

Summary/Abstract: Among the around 1,000 codices representing the Venetian chronicles written between the 11th and 18th centuries, the author of this paper selected the chronicle written by Antonio Morosini. Along with other Venetian historical writings, this particular one was regarded by Freddy Thiriet as so important that it should be edited with priority. The present paper makes an examination of the two main manuscripts that include this chronicle, meaning the original preserved at the Austrian National Library in Vienna and a very late copy made towards the end of the 19th century by those that directed Marciana National Library at those times. The proofs demonstrating the paternity and the date of the chronicle are also investigated in this paper, along with the place taken by it in the ensemble of the Venetian historical writing. This latter is sustained by the analysis of the sources that it relies on and of its more or less possible influences upon other chronicles. All these respects are the result of an attempt of taking into consideration as more as possible modern works dealing directly or only tangentially with the Venetian chronicles.

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