The Abbe Giovanni Mariti wrote an account of the condition of
Cyprus in 1769, almost 100 years after the final conquest of the
island by the Ottoman Turks. Mariti travelled widely around the
island in the seven years during which he served there as a
consular official, and as well as recounting his own visits to
towns, villages and monasteries, he describes contemporary events
such as the outbreak of plague in 1760 and the failed insurrection
against the Turks in 1764. This English translation, first
published in 1895, also provides contemporary eyewitness accounts
of the sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta which ended Venetian rule in
1570-1, and of the torture and death of the Venetian commander of
Famagusta, Marcantonio Bragadino, a story which has passed into
legend.
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