and supports the reconciliation of classes, particularly in the aftermath of the adverse impact on the Venetian economy of the reconquest of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261. Canal reused older sources for the early potions of his chronicle, but these are difficult to identify. He did include several original documents, however, such as the Partitio Romaniae of 1204 and a 1125 charter by Baldwin II of Jerusalem. His particular value lies in the events he himself witnessed, starting with the dogate of Jacopo Tiepolo. The chronicle was known and relied on by the author of the unpublished early 14th-century chronicle of Marco, as well as by the Doge and chronicler Andrea Dandolo, who used it rather selectively in his compilation of Venetian history. There is also some evidence that the 18th-century writer Giustiniana Wynne knew of the work, but otherwise it appears to have been buried in the commercial archives and not discovered again until the 19th century, when L. F. Polidori published its first edition in 1845. Its modern editions are by Alberto Limentani, Les Estoires de Venise: Cronaca veneziana in lingua francese dalle origini al 1275 (Florence 1972), and an English translation by Laura K. Morreale, Martin da Canal, Les Estoires de Venise (Padova, 2009). References Sources Text La cronaca dei veneziani del maestro Martino Da Canale nell' antico Francese, in medieval French plus translation to modern Italian (translation by Giovanni Galvani), curated by F. Polidori, publication year 1845, text starts at page 268, in volume VIII of the series Archivio Storico Italiano. 13th-century Venetian people Italian chroniclers 13th-century writers French-language writers