Images of the »Turk« in Italy: A History of the »Other« in Early Modern Europe: 1453-1683

232 Pages·2011·54.181 MB·English

by  Mustafa Soykut

Mustafa Soykut
Image of the "Turk" in Italy
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ISLAMKUNDLICHE UNTERSUCHUNGEN • BAND 236
Mustafa Soykut
Image of the "Turk" in Italy
A History of the "Other"
in Early Modern Europe: 1453-1683
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst for
the scholarship that it provided for the present research. A special thank goes to
Ingeborg Sonsuz from the German Embassy in Ankara for all the
encouragement throughout my studies. Likewise, I would like to thank also
Ahmet Evin for providing the necessary contacts with the German academia. I
am most grateful to all the members Mioni family in Padua for all the hospitality
that they have offered to me during my research in Italy. I would like to thank
especially my friend Anna and her father Alberto Mioni, not only as a host, but
also as an effervescent inspirer in academic matters. Without Professor Mioni's
circle of Veneto academics, the present book would not have come to existence.
In this respect, it has been a most felicitous event having met Paolo Preto from
Padua University, whose contribution to the present work has been immense. I
am also grateful to the most pleasant character of Gaetano Platania and his
guidance into the Vatican libraries.
The present book would have not existed, if it were not for the most full-
hearted assistance and encouragement of the two women who have been my
supervisors: namely Petra Kappert from Hamburg University and Nur Bilge
Criss from Bilkent University in Ankara. I would like to thank them both
immensely.
It is impossible to do justice to all the people - as one says in Turkish -
"who added some salt into the soup". Lastly, I thank my family for always
having supported me in my projects.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE xi
CHAPTER I
The "Turk" as the Antithesis of the European 1
The Turk as representative of the "other" 3
CHAPTER II
Italian Images of Islam and the Turks as its
Banner-Holders: 1453 to the Eighteenth Century 15
CHAPTER III
Apostolic Dreams of European Unity and the Turks 46
The Fifteenth Century Crus ader Idea 48
An Account of the Ottoman Incursion in Friuli 56
From the First Siege of Vienna (1529) to the Aftermath of
Lepanto (1571) 62
CHAPTER IV
The Seventeenth Century Until the Final War in 1683 67
Marcello Marchesi: A bellicose oration to Pope Paul V 69
Commentary on Marchesi's manuscript 80
Congregazione di Propaganda Fide 83
Angelo Petricca da Sonnino 84
Treatise on the easy wcy cf defeating the Turk 87
Commentary on Petricca's Manuscript 99
The "Turkish Question" and European Unity 107
CHAPTER V
A New Vision from Venice: Delia Letteratura de' Turchi 112
CONCLUSION 148
APPENDIXI
Monsignor Marcello Marchesi, "The war against the
Turk": Alla Santità di nostro Signore Papa Paolo Quinto
Beatissimo Padre
154
APPENDIX II
Angelo Petricca da Sonnino, Trattato del modo facile
d'espugnare il Turco, e discacciarlo dalli molti Regni che
possiede in Europa.
Composto dal padre Maestro Angelo Petricca da Sonnino
Min: Conven: già Vicario Patriarcale di Constantinopoli,
Commissario gn~le in Oriente, e Prefetto de Missionarij di
Valacchia, et Moldavia
164
BIBLIOGRAPHY 174
APPENDIX III
List of manuscripts and of original source frontispieces 192
INDEX 208