Papers by Maria Pia Pedani
In the Modern Age from the 16th to the 18th c. international trade between Venice and Istanbul wa... more In the Modern Age from the 16th to the 18th c. international trade between Venice and Istanbul was not exclusively in Venetian hands. Ottoman ships sailed the Mediterranean and the Adriatic and foreign merchants used to buy and sell goods on the Rialto market and to frequent Dalmatian ports. Having so many contacts with Europeans, Ottoman merchants too began to become acquainted with the other’s legal institutions. They began to appoint agents or even consuls to represents themselves, to go to notaries instead of kadı to make wills or to sign proxies, to go to Venetian law courts to support their rights in cases of quarrels or inheritances and, last but not the least, also to take out an insurance to protect their goods or ships from the accidents that could happen at sea.
Using Venetian documents kept in the Venetian State Archives this paper aims to present some example of deeds of this kind made by Ottoman Muslim subjects.
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The story and symbolism of some bas-reliefs of the Virgin Mary brought from Byzantium to Venice i... more The story and symbolism of some bas-reliefs of the Virgin Mary brought from Byzantium to Venice in the Middle Ages.
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The last days of the Venetian school of Oriental Languages in Istanbul
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Gift exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Venice
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Erken Modern Dönemde. Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Venedikli Köleler, in Osmanlı Devleti’nde Kölelik. Ticaret, Esaret, Yaşam, ed. Zübeyde Güneş Yağcı, Fırat Yaşa, Dilek İnan, İstanbul, Tezkire, 2017, pp. 117-135. Venetian slaves in the Ottoman Empire in the Modern Age.
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Italian translation with notes of the Arabic manuscript by Ra'd from Aleppo a 17th c. traveller t... more Italian translation with notes of the Arabic manuscript by Ra'd from Aleppo a 17th c. traveller to Venice.
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The idea of 'the Turk' in Italian literature.
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How the triplex confinium was established in 1699 by Venetians, Ottomans, and Habsburgh.
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The Venetian point of view about Ottomans and Islam in the Modern Age.
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Cultural contacts between Venetian diplomats and the Ottomans: architecture, art, literature.
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Scholars of Oriental languages have always been interested in the history of Asian and African la... more Scholars of Oriental languages have always been interested in the history of Asian and African lands and its relations with Europe. They were the first to work in disciplines now called area/trans-cultural studies and world/connected history. In these fields it is important to create groups that share different linguistic skills, since several historiographical traditions exist. The University Ca' Foscari (Venice) has recently become a gathering place for scholars interested in different cultures, united by the desire of sharing their knowledge with their colleagues. World history may be a first step to get over the crisis of historical studies in Italy but it is not enough. A solution may be in a new interest in public history, whose target is common people. In this way university may fulfil its 'third mission' and also prepare new professionals in the field of historical studies.
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Italian historical works about the Ottoman Empire
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Some new information about the Ottoman geographer Piri Reis's life found in Venetian unpublished ... more Some new information about the Ottoman geographer Piri Reis's life found in Venetian unpublished sources.
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Some notes about the presence of Arabs, Persians and Turks in Venice in the Modern Age. They were... more Some notes about the presence of Arabs, Persians and Turks in Venice in the Modern Age. They were above all merchants and diplomats.
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In the Middle Ages the city of Venice had commercial relations with some Muslim countries. Veneti... more In the Middle Ages the city of Venice had commercial relations with some Muslim countries. Venetian merchants who trade in the East were accompanied and protected by consuls and ambassadors sent by the central government. However sometimes, above all when international problems arose, even Islamic rulers sent their diplomatic envoys to Venice. On the basis of the documents kept in the Venetian State Archives it is possible to discover which sovereigns sent their men to Venice and why. They were, for instance, the Mamluk sultans of Egypt (1465 and 1476), Uzun Hasan, emir of the Ak Kuyunlu (1470-1475), the Tatar khan Ahmed (1476) and, above all, the Ottoman rulers (from 1384 onwards) together with some of their provincial governors (beylerbeyi). Venetians received these diplomats in the best way, prepared flats and organized feasts for them, besides political meeting, but they were also very careful about this kind of persons. In that period, in Europe, it was easy to meet swindlers who pretended to be ambassadors sent by far-off and exotic rulers. Some of them, as for instance friar Ludovico da Bologna (1460), succeeded in faking even kings and popes. Venetians, who had mixed with Muslims for centuries, could not be easily deceived and even Ludovico’s adventure found its inevitable conclusion just in Venice.
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Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini, I, a cura di Maddalena Del Bianco Cotrozzi, Riccardo Di Segni, Marcello Massenzio, Firenze, Olschki, 2014, collana Storia dell’Ebraismo. Studi e testi, XXX, pp. 345-361 A story of the Jewish servants of the Ottoman imperial harem (kira) in the 16th c. made on the ba... more A story of the Jewish servants of the Ottoman imperial harem (kira) in the 16th c. made on the base of Venetian documents.
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Papers by Maria Pia Pedani
Using Venetian documents kept in the Venetian State Archives this paper aims to present some example of deeds of this kind made by Ottoman Muslim subjects.
Using Venetian documents kept in the Venetian State Archives this paper aims to present some example of deeds of this kind made by Ottoman Muslim subjects.
This book is the English translation of Dalla Frontiera al Confine, Rome 2002.
In his book about business partnership Murat Çizakça (A Comparative Evolution of Business Partnership. The Islamic World and Europe, with Specific Reference to the Ottoman Archives, Brill, Leiden, 1996) states: “In the Ottoman case, it can be presumed that an effective maritime insurance did not exist. Certainly, not a single document has been found to indicate the contrary.” Documents still kept in the Venetian State Archives tell us that Ottomans could use Venetian insurers and also agree to make insurances in front of a kadı.
Ancient historiographical theories say that in the Modern Age Ottoman Muslims were not interested in international trade and that they left it completely in Christian and Jewish hands, but documents tell us a completely different story, a story of contacts, exchanges, and even confidence and friendship.
(paper presented to EBHA - Ancona 2018 but not delivered because I could not attend to the conference)