Marin Barleti

Marin Barleti was born around 1450 in Shkodra, then a Venetian possession. He took part in the defence of the city against the Ottomans, in 1474 and then in 1478. After the fall of the town, he arrived in Venice in April 1479 among the refugees. He became a priest at Piovene, north of Vicenza. He dedicated his first book to the doge Leonardo Loredan and the second to Ferrante Castriota, grandson of Skanderbeg, whose life he wrote, and drew up a list of the popes up to 1513. He died around 1512 or shortly after.

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• ChronicleThe Siege of ShkodraDe obsidione ScodrensiMarin Barleti · 1504Literature