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shakespeare's othello was based on an italian story called "disdemona of venice and the moorish captain" by giovanni cinthio; i'd imagine he based his story on an actual event but can't be sure...
In the short novel by Cinthio, Otello is a delinquent, and the story isn't much like that by Shakespeare. Moreover there is a little problem: in Venice the word "moro" meant: "Arab/North African" and "inhabitant of Morea" (Peloponnesos, in Greece: in fact in Venice there is a quarter called "Contrada dei Mori", and there lived the Greeks). So, in the story by Cinthio, the geographic origin of Otello is not completely sure.
About the question if there were Moor kings (well, Venice hadn't kings, it had the elctive doge, the title is comparable to that of duca = duke), no, there weren't. I don't know if there were Moor generals/admirals, but I don't think.
About the question if there were Moor kings (well, Venice hadn't kings, it had the elctive doge, the title is comparable to that of duca = duke), no, there weren't. I don't know if there were Moor generals/admirals, but I don't think.
Mmm. There were very few greeks of import to Byzantium, after that whole fall of the empire to the infidel turk fiasco.
historicalmonarch = {
id = { type = 6 id = 06583 }
startdate = {
day = 12
month = may
year = 1462
}
deathdate = {
day = 2
month = november
year = 1471
}
name = "Cristoforo Moro"
DIP = 5
MIL = 7
ADM = 5
}
Who was this person, then?
id = { type = 6 id = 06583 }
startdate = {
day = 12
month = may
year = 1462
}
deathdate = {
day = 2
month = november
year = 1471
}
name = "Cristoforo Moro"
DIP = 5
MIL = 7
ADM = 5
}
Who was this person, then?
the 67th doge of venice, and no, he was not a moor; whether he was of greek descent i can't say, but the moro family is (still) one of the oldest in venice, dating from way before the 4th crusade
Eheh, that is only a surname, not a nickname (of course the surname may be related to the geographic origin, but it would be terribly difficult to know it).
But bear in mind that moro means a lot of things (in my first post I talked about only its geographic meanings).
Moro is a person with brown hair or brown eyes (capelli mori, occhi mori).
Moro was also the name of the silkworm in Lombard dialect in the Renaissance (in fact Ludovico il Moro, duke of Milan, was called "il Moro" because he supported a lot the production of silk in his duchy; or moro was the male version of the name mora="mulberry", the fruit eat by the silkworm).
from whence we get the name "morea" for the pelopponese (it was named after this berry), and the whole circle begins again
