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Marino Sanudo Torsello

c. 1270–1343 · 14th century

Marino Sanudo Torsello was a Venetian statesman and geographer who travelled widely in the eastern Mediterranean. His Secreta fidelium crucis proposed a crusade with an economic blockade of Egypt, and his history of Romania describes the Frankish states of Greece, including the French-speaking court of Achaea.

Marino Sanudo Torsello
Image: Marino Sanuto the Elder · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Principality of AchaeaSocioeconomy, Summary

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