Bailo of Corfu

The Bailo of Corfu was the leader of the Venetian delegation to the island of Corfu who oversaw the affairs of the island while under Venetian rule and protected the commercial and military interests of the Republic of Venice. The first mention of a bailo in Corfu is in 1386 and is found in a Greek chronicle.[1] The bailo of Corfu is also mentioned in a document by historian Marco Guazzo from 1544.[2]

Amongst the Venetian provincial administrators, the Duke of Candia was the foremost, followed in order of seniority by the leaders of Negroponte, Corfu, Modon and Coron and Argos-Nauplion.[3] The bailo of Corfu also administered the affairs of the Venetian dependencies of Butrinto and Lepanto in the mainland.[3] Pantaleone Barbo was the first bailo of Corfu.[4] The bailo of Corfu also made reports and recommendations to Venice regarding the construction of fortifications on the island.[5][6]

  1. ^ Henry Jervis-White-Jervis (1852). History of the Island of Corfú and of the Republic of the Ionian Islands. Colburn and Company. p. 113.
  2. ^ Marco Guazzo (1544). Historie di tutte le cose degne di memoria quai del anno. 1524. fino questo presente sono occorse nella Italia, nella Prouenza, nella Franza, nella Picardia, nella Fiandra, nella Normandia, nel regno di Campagna, nel regno d'Artois, nella Inghilterra, nella Spagna, nella Barbaria, nella Elemagna, nella Vngaria, nella Boemia nella Panonnia, nella Germania nella Dalmatia, nella Macedonia, nella Morea, nella Turchia, nella Persia, nella India, et altri luoghi, col nome di molti huomini scientiati, nouamente con la giunta & la tauola ristampate & corrette. al segno della croce. p. 4.
  3. ^ a b Fifty Years of Failed Plans: Venice, Humanism, and the Turks (1453—1503). 2008. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-549-80891-6.
  4. ^ Monique O'Connell (1 November 2009). Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime State. JHU Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8018-9637-8.
  5. ^ Fernand Braudel (1995). The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. University of California Press. pp. 126–129. ISBN 978-0-520-20308-2.
  6. ^ International Journal of Maritime History. Vol. 19. Maritime Studies Research Unit. 2007. the bailo and capitano of Corfu asked the Senate for financial and logistical aid to reconstruct the walls of the castra of Corfu ...