The ''Chronicle of Amadi'' (or ''Istoria del regno di Cipro'', 'History of the kingdom of Cyprus') is an anonymous chronicle written around 1520 in Italian prose with some
Venetian traits that detailed the
history of Cyprus
Human habitation of Cyprus dates back to the Paleolithic era. Cyprus's geographic position has caused Cyprus to be influenced by differing Eastern Mediterranean civilisations over the millennia.
Periods of Cyprus's history from 1050 BC have be ...
from the Byzantine Emperor
Heraclius
Heraclius ( grc-gre, Ἡράκλειος, Hērákleios; c. 575 – 11 February 641), was Eastern Roman emperor from 610 to 641. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the exarch of Africa, led a revolt ...
to the wedding of King
John II with
Helena Palaiologina
Helena Palaiologina ( el, ; 3 February 1428 – 11 April 1458) was a Byzantine princess of the Palaiologos family, who became Queen of Cyprus and Armenia, titular Queen consort of Jerusalem, and Princess of Antioch through her marriage to King ...
on 3 February 1441. It was published in the original Italian in 1891 by René de Mas Latrie, son of French historian
Louis de Mas Latrie
Louis de Mas Latrie (9 April 1815 – 3 January 1897) was a 19th-century French historian.
Biography
After his studies at the École nationale des chartes, Louis de Mas Latrie became an historian and specialized on Cyprus during the Middle Age ...
and has been recently published in an English translation from the Italian by Nicolas Coureas and Peter Edbury.
[{{Cite journal, last=Nicolaou-Konnari, first=Angel, date=2015, title=The Chronicle of Amadi by Coureas, Nicholas and Edbury, Peter (review), url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/671448/summary, journal=Journal of Mediterranean Studies, language=en, volume=24, issue=1, pages=123–125, issn=2523-9465]
Editions
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Chroniques d'Amadi et de Strambaldi. Publiées par M. René de Mas Latrie. Premier partie Chronicle d'Amadi 1891
References
History of Cyprus
Italian chronicles