Ştefan cel Mare în I Diarii lui Marino Sanudo
Stephen the Great’s Image in Marino Sanudo’s I Diarii

Summary/Abstract: The most important Venetian source from the end of the XVth century and the first decades of the next one, also known under the name of I Diarii and covering the events that took place between 1496 and 1533, was written by Marino Sanudo, and it confers a great importance to the last eight years of Stephen the Great’s reign. For Sanudo, as exponent of the Venetian interests, Stephen the Great’s position towards the Turks was also interesting just like his capacity of facing these ones, relieving thus the military and political situation of the town of lagoons confronted with the Ottoman expansionism. Also interesting in the chronicle are Stephen the Great’s direct relations both with the Venetians, as well as with the other states that could theorically take part in an anti-Ottoman coalition: Hungary, Poland and Lithuania. Sanudo’s correct and balanced presentation of Stephan the Great and his actions, is based on Venetian sources of foremost importance, our voivode’s personality being depicted objectively and sometimes with admiration. The chronicle of Sanudo made a further contribution to a better knowledge of Stephen the Great’s reign in the town of Saint Mark, the Venetians probably being the best informed Westerners of our great voivode’s deeds. "Domnia lui Ştefan cel Mare, cea mai lungă din istoria întregului spaţiu românesc în perioada evului de mujloc, a reprezentat o epocă de prosperitate economică, de consolidare a unor structuri sociale mobile, capabile să ţină pasul cu modernitatea care se făcea simţită tot mai puternic pe continentul nostru. De asemenea, ea a însemnat consolidarea"[...]

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