Domenico Malipiero (1428–1515) was a naval captain from apatricianVenetian family who passed his youth in maritime commerce on his family's behalf and became a Venetian senator in 1465. He held a command in theWar of Ferrara (1482–1484), fought to relieve the siege ofPisa and was eventually made Admiral of the Fleet. Before that, at the capture ofGallipoli inApulia, the captain-general was shot down on hispoop deck as the battle was about to commence; Malipiero modestly and matter-of-factly recounts that he spread a sheet over the captain's body and put it about that the captain was merely severely wounded. In semi-retirement from his maritime career he served as the Venetian governor ofRovigo (1494),Rimini (1505),Napoli di Romania (1510) and ofTreviso in the year of his death.[1]
He kept a chronicle in theVenetian language of thehistory of Venice which runs from 1457 to 1500, and offers details of the Venetian wars with the Sultan. Malipiero'sAnnali, theDiarii ofMarino Sanudo and the diaries ofGirolamo Priuli are the triumvirate of primary sources forRenaissance Venice, "a full, vivacious and veracious narrative of Venetian history, of life in the city, of wars and intrigues of the Republic, during her splendour and the beginning of her decline (1457–1535)"[2] In the later sixteenth century the diaries came into the hands of Francesco Longo, who made an abridged copy of them, which was printed under the titleAnnali veneti dell'anno 1457–1500.[3] The originals have disappeared.
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