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Istanbul |
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| birth |
Sofia/Cyprus |
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| employment |
Istanbul |
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40 years of service |
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| appraisal |
Istanbul |
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bailo Contarini: served 'più con le orecchie che con la lingua... ud"a volontieri solo le cose che si confacevano à suoi poco savj pensieri' [quoted in Barozzi-Berchet: 250-251. see also story @ Nicolini's scam involving Ottoman jeweler and the Bailo [in Coco & Manzonetto 1985: 115, note 14 |
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| appraisal |
Istanbul |
1599 (year approximate) |
1599 Vincenzo Gradenigo: 'Simon de' Piero, nato et allevato in sofia, ma p[er habitatione di qualche anno in Ragusi, et p[er esser ancò stato Dragomano di Ragusi d.o Raguseo huomo da bene, et di molto valore in questo essercitio, et che tratta con ogni vantaggio con grandi, et atto à ben intendere le nuove occorrenti, si come della sua persona ne ha essa havuto relatione, p.ma che io qui venissi, ho stimato gran servitio di lei il continuar di trattenirlo qui in casa, con tutto ch'egli fosse rissoluto di partire co'll Ill.mo Capello' |
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| petition |
Istanbul |
1607 (year approximate) to 1608-12-31 (approximate) |
1607-8: requests issuance of Ottoman safe-conduct for those travelling b/w Ven and Istanbul, notes that this was accepted at the time of the previous bailo and declares that this was first decreed during the present Sultan's father Hudavendigar Han. The request is accepted. [Ecnebi defteri, 13, fol. 24 #208-209 |
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| employment |
Istanbul |
1609 (year approximate) |
1609 still Ven dragoman, seeks loan from Ambrosio Grillo |
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| litigation |
Istanbul |
1611 (year approximate) |
1611: mentioned as debtor of merchants in the Morea [Ecnebi defteri, 13, #389, fol. 40 |
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| employment end |
Istanbul |
1612 (year approximate) |
Post 1611 |
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| employment |
Istanbul |
1620 (year approximate) |
1620: works for Marescial of Poland (see Relazione from Germany of Polo Minio) |
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