Also, on this day, January 21, 1526, Sanudo visited an orphanage for young girls born to members of a scuola. The girls are educated and are granted dowries at marriageable age. An example that even in those days and in those realms most interested in money, charity did exist and could be praised.
But in a separate text added a few days before,
Editor's note: "... a 1526 broadsheet on "the monster of Castelbaldo," an anonymous and untitled text without publisher or place of publication... alludes to the sins of vainglory, lasciviousness, and sodomy and finds these degeneracies due to the deceptions of a pseudoprophet (Luther) and his books:" [pp 417-8]
The December before a baby in Masi was said to be born with both sets of genitals and an extra leg. This broadsheet constantly reaffirms the writer's faith in God as the Prime Mover...
Sanudo Diaries: January 12, 1526 (40:652-53); "The lack of faith that today reigns in this world, my most illustrious lords, is the reason why so many times God the Father sends us monsters so that we may see the evils we failed to believe.... God, who is in charge of nature, let's things happen that he could prevent, because of our enormous sins.... "
Again this is some other writer but they sound like a preacher. They then claim to have a 'small and low intelligence' but "will try to explain as God composes it in my head." Meanings for the mal-shaped aspects of the birth are given one after the other and how these might relate to man's sins.
A few years earlier, one could hear followers of Martin Luther preaching in Venice. What's more the pope had even heard of that telling the Venetian ambassdor to tell the signoria back in Venice not to let "a certain brother Andrea of Ferrara" print a book.
Sanudo Diaries: January 18, 1521 (29:552) "... He also called don Pietro Bembo over, telling him to write a brief to the Signoria on this matter. Then Bembo told our ambassador that it would be a good idea for the Signoria to have Andrea of Ferrara arrested." [p 414]
nedits: This was the same pope, Leo X, Giovanni de' Medici that was so widely detested by so many people.
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In 1522, the month after pope Leo died, Sanudo tells us a letter from Rome arrived to ser Justinian Contarini. Sanudo summarized it for us.
Sanudo Diaries: January 13, 1522 (32:356); "An epitaph was written on the sepulchre of Pope Leo and quickly removed, and I was told that the gist was that the passerby should not marvel at the large size of the sepulcher, that is, o f the tomb, because it is small compared with the grandeur of Leo. For never had a pope so closely resembled the Trinity as Leo, and this because he had distributed the funds of three papacies, namely those of [his predecessor] Julius, who at his death left a balance of 600,000 ducats; his own; and those of his successor, who [will] rise [to heaven] before he will have paid Pope Leo's debt. I do not believe I can get hold of this epitaph, which is beautiful and is no lie." [pp. 180-1]
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nedits: The party from last week that the compagnia Ortolani had paid for was still going on: Sanudo Diaries: January 16, 1521 (29:546-7). They had a festa for the same prince they had since decided to accept into their order. This party was at Ca' Lando (maybe this one) which was then occupied by Sanudo's nephew ser Marco Antonio Venier. The prince was young and liked to dance. They did the 'hat dance' which was new then and that went on a long time. Tellingly, Sanudo mentions "...none of the silver was lost except a cup...." [p. 290-1]
A January wedding was noted for a distinguished bride - the granddaughter of doge Andrea Gritti - in 1525. The party went on for a week beforehand including a big dinner and dance in the doge's palace. Again the compagnia Ortolani were involved and paid for this party.
Sanudo Diaries: January 17, 1525 (37:447) "...The party concluded at eight hours past sunset, and not without a rain that ended days and months of drought, a good sign that this ceremony is taking place in a time of abundance." [p. 298]
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Editor's notes or Sanudo Diaries from Venice, Cita Excellentissima, Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo translated by Linda L Carroll, editors: Patricia H LaBalme and Laura Sanguineti White, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
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