Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.6.18
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Context
Marino Sanudo the Elder of Torcello, from a wealthy and powerful Venetian
family, was a statesman and geographer who spent much of his career from the late 13th
century until his death in 1338 living and travelling abroad, particularly in the
Peloponnese and Aegean islands, Cyprus and Cilicia, Constantinople, the Levant, and Egypt,
but also in western and northern Europe. A learned and eloquent advocate for a new crusade
to the Holy Land, he wrote the voluminous Secrets for Those Faithful to the
Cross (Secreta fidelium Crucis), a strategic manual full of
economic, military, and geographic detail as well as maps, and presented different versions
of it to popes Clement V (in 1307) and John XXII (in 1321). This passage from his account of
the Holy Land discusses the glories of the Kings of Jerusalem and surveys the region’s
historical topography, including its coastal sites.
Text
Post praedictas autem
quinque civitates Palestinorum sequuntur aliae civitates et munitiones: Iopen scilicet,
Arsur, Caesarea Palestinae, Cayphas, Ptolomayda, Tyrus, de quibus
omnibus, supra IV. et V. capit. dictum est. Postea Sarepta quam frequentabat Elyas: ibi
iuxta portam civitatis modicam capellam aedificaverunt Christiani, ubi filium viduae
suscitavit.
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Textual Note
Ed. Bongars 1611Corrigenda Note
Minor corr. (punctuation)Translation
After the
aforementioned five cities of the Palestinians other cities and fortifications follow:
namely, Iope, Arsur, Caesarea Palestinae, Cayphas, Ptolomaÿs, Tyrus
(all these are discussed above, Chapters 4 and 5). After these is Sarepta where Elias lived.
There next to the city gate the Christians have built a small chapel on the spot where he
revived the son of the widow.
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Translation Note
Adapted from Lock 2011Works Cited
- 1 Marino Sanudo, Gesta Dei per Francos Sive Orientalium Expeditionum et Regni Francorum Hierosolimitani Historia 2: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis Super Terrae Sanctae Recuperatione et Conservatione, ed. Jacques Bongars (Hanover: Wechelian, 1611), bk: 3.6.18, p: 165.
- 2 Marino Sanudo, Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis, trans. Peter Lock, Crusade Texts in Translation 21 (London: Routledge, 2011), p: 263.
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Joseph L. Rife, “Marino Sanudo the Elder, Secrets for Those Faithful to the Cross 3.6.18,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/335.
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