Theodore Spandounes

The Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal expansion of the Ottoman Empire thereafter produced a ready market in the West for works about the origins history and institutions of the Turks. Theodore Spandounes himself of a Greek refugee family from Constantinople who had settled in Venice was one of the first to publish such a work. Its final version published in 1538 was written in Italian. This book offers the first English translation of the complete text with a historical commentary and explanatory notes.