Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Diario dell’assedio di Constantinople

  • The Siege of Constantinople as witnessed by a physician, 1453

    The diary by Nicolò Barbaro of the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks remains one of the most valuable firsthand sources of the seven-week siege of the Byzantine capital by the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. The author was an Italian physician, born into a prominent Venetian family, who may have been in Constantinople…