Diana G. Wright and John R. Melville-Jones. The Greek Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio Volume II: Dispacci from Candia (1500-1502). Unipress, 2015.

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This volume contains 61 letters Minio wrote as Captain of Crete, responsible for the defense of the island, and for supplying food and materiel for the Venetian fleet. These letters begin with the fall of Methoni, give information about the Venetian-Ottoman war, shipping, falcons, spies, Cretan fortifications, the French & Spanish fleets, Ottoman pirates, and problems of famine and ship supplies. Minio is 20 years older than he was in Nauplion with a great many life-&-death experiences behind him, and is increasingly intolerant of Venetian bureaucracy. In Nauplion he was the sole administrator: in Candia he has to work in concert with a Doge and others. This does not always go well.