Venice, Italians and the Ottoman Levent

1st Levantine Heritage Foundation meeting in Venice, Italy

November 24, 2022 – November 25, 2022
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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Aula Mario Baratto

Cornucopia contributor Phillip Mansel will give a talk on Venice and the Levent and Francisco Apellániz, Venetians in the Mamluk sultanate: Merchants and their Notaries. There will be a book presentation: Luis Miguel Selvelli, (co-editor), Smyrna and Italy. Communities, relations and institutions of a Levantine city. Didem İşler’s talk is on The church of Agia Fotini in Smyrna in the documents of the State Archives of Venice and Tommaso Stefini, Resilience and Change: Venetian merchants in Istanbul after the loss of Cyprus (1573-1645) and Vera Costantini, Venetian interests in the Ottoman Balkans. The last day there will be a tour of Venetian - Levantine sites of interest. The event will be in English.

Detail from Carpaccio's La consacrazione dei diaconi da parte di san Pietro [The consecration of deacons by St. Peter], 1511 - Gemaeldegalerie, Berlin