The earliest surviving Venetian narrative close to the events. For the years around 1200 it covers Doge Enrico Dandolo (1192 to 1205), the war with Pisa in the Adriatic, Zadar's defiance, Venice's standing with Byzantium after the chrysobull of 1198, and the first dealings that led to the Fourth Crusade treaty of 1201. Brief and favourable to the doges.
About this source
- Title
- Historia ducum Veneticorum
- Author
- Anonymous
- Author's dates
- a Venetian writing in the early 13th century
- Written
- about 1229, with a continuation
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- 1102 to 1178, continued to 1229
- Kind
- History
A newer edition by L. A. Berto (2000) is not free. Andrea Dandolo's 14th-century Chronica, which reworks older Venetian records, is not freely online in its standard edition.