by the senate, which granted him a pension of 150 gold ducats per annum. He died in 1536. Sanuto played a role in placing the Venetian Jews in the first ever Jewish ghetto, as he stated in a speech in 1515, a year before the ghetto's establishment: "I do not want to omit to relate an evil practice resulting with the continuing contact with these Jews, who reside in great numbers in the cities. Formerly, they were not seen outside their houses from palm Sunday until after Easter. Now till yesterday they were going about and it is a very bad thing, and no one says anything to them, since we need them due to the wars and therefore do what they want." Works His chief works are the following: Itinerario per la terraferma veneziana, published by M. Rawdon Brown in 1847 I commentari delta guerra di Ferrara, an account of the war between the Venetians and Ercole I d' Este, published in Venice in 1829 La Spedizione di Carlo VIII.(MS. in the Louvre) Le Vite dei Dogi, published in vol. xxii. of Muratori's Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (1733) Diarii, his most important work, which covers the period from 1 January 1496 to June 1533, and fills 58 volumes. The publication of these records was begun by Rinaldo Fulin in 1879, in collaboration with Federigo Stefani, Guglielmo Berchet, and Niccolò Barozzi; the last volume was published in Venice in 1903. Owing to the relations of the Venetian republic with the whole of Europe and the East it is practically a universal chronicle. It is considered an invaluable source of information on that period. Personal life He was briefly married to Cecilia Priuli, but the marriage had no issue. He died with no legitimate male heirs, leaving only two illegitimate daughters. References External links 1466 births 1536 deaths 15th-century Venetian writers 16th-century Italian historians 16th-century Venetian writers 16th-century male writers 16th-century diarists 15th-century diarists Italian diarists