The Siege of Cyprus in Bosio's Istoria

Abstract

The aspect of Veneto-Maltese relations which forms the subject of this study, as deduced from Jacomo Bosio's account of the siege of Cyprus, has two elements. The first element is that of delineating Malta's role in Venice's most decisive event in the sixteenth century, that forms the narrative backbone of the war of Cyprus as related by Bosio. The second is more ephemeral, but unquestionably important since Bosio, in his capacity as official historian of the Order, his writing extensively about a foreign State.