Sanudo Diaries: Sept 26, 1513, 1520;

I'll note here that Sept 24 is St Gellere's or Gerardo's day whether you are from Hungary or Italy. An Italian who went in the 11th century to convert the northern Huns. He was thrown off the Blocksburg Cliff on the Buda side into the Danube River, but not before he was stoned and ran thru with a lance by the local pagans. His relics were gathered and he became a patron saint of Hungary along with the much more famous St Stephen and was interred with Stephen's set there in Budapest in 1083. This good Gerardo's relics were later sent to Venice in 1333 only a dozen years after Dante Alighieri's death. See Dante: Purgatory canto 16, lines 121-140

1513

During the War of the League of Cambrai, "by the fall of 1513 ... their devastating fires could be seen from Venice...": p. 11*

Sanudo Diaries: September 26, 1513 (17:102) "Hearing this rumor of fires at the twenty-second hour, I went to the top of the Bell Tower of San Marco - under reconstruction - to see the truth of it. I saw the terrible destruction wrought by the enemies, who, if they had been Turks, could not have done worse. First I saw the huge fires in the direction of Gambarare, [Editor's footnote: "A village on the Brenta River, southwest of Venice."] then in the inn and other dwellings of Liza Fusina, and at Moranzan, and everywhere one saw enormous fires that were billowing smoke, so that at the twenty-third hour the sun was as red as blood from the smoke of so many fires."
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1520

Editor's note: "Particularly awkward for the functioning of justice were those cases involving priests and tonsured clerics, who were normally tried in church courts. This special procedure was viewed with alarm by the doge and the Collegio, for it encouraged young patricians to take minor orders in order to circumvent secular legal procedures. ..." p. 149*

Sanudo Diaries: September 26, 1520 (29:206); "I note that the gallows are still standing. They were supposed to be used to hang a thief who killed seven people, but the [execution] has been stayed. HE is a priest, and he never said this in any of his testimony, so the execution has been suspended.

But when they heard this, the doge and the Collegio summoned the papal legate and the vicar of the patriarch, complaining of these things and saying that everyone is becoming a priest [to avoid punishment for their crimes]. They said that they wanted to see if it was the truth and [if so,] whether the matter should proceed. In addition, those two thieves were supposed to be hanged, but then the Forty decided that they should have an eye gouged out and a hand cut off; the execution was stayed because they are men of the cloth. Thus justice is not done.

For this reason, more than fifty young patricians on various occasions have gone to the papal legate asking to be given minor orders, and he has complied. It is a bad thing, and harmful to tolerate it."

nedits: The gallows were set up between the pillars of St Mark and St Teodoro at the head of San Marco Piazzetta. Another view looking toward the more modern Zecca and Libreria has the great brick Bell tower or Campanile in the background, the older version that was being refurbished in Sanudo's time collapsed in 1902.

1530

Sanudo Diaries: September 26, 1530 (53:568); "A bill was passed that the honorable ser Pietro Bembo, who lives in Padua, be the one to write the history of Venice in Latin, succeeding Navagero, who died after drawing 3000 ducats' salary and not writing a word. The aforementioned Pietro Bembo will bepaid for his housing, that is, the rent where he lives, up to 60 ducats a year, nor will other provisions be made for him."

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All quotes as Sanudo Diaries or Editor's notes or Editor's Footnotes from Venice, Cita Excellentissima, Selection 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