Antonio Bruti Explained

Antonio Bruti
Birth Date:1518
Birth Place:Lezhë
Death Date:1571
Death Place:Ulqin
Death Cause:Siege of Ulqin
Father:Antonio Bruti (1518-1571)
Nationality:Albanian
Occupation:Translator, merchant and diplomat.
Years Active:1570-1591
Known For:Maintaining relations between the Porte and the Western powers
Citizenship:Venetian
Education:Giovanni di lingua, dragoman.
Employer:Venice.
Spouse:Maria Bruni
Children:Bartolomeo Bruti, Benedetto Bruti and Jacomo Bruti
Family:Bruni family
Relatives:Antonio Bruni (merchant)

Antonio Bruti (c. 1518 in Lezhë d. 1571 in Ulqin) was an Albanian trader,[1] agent,[2] merchant and diplomat,[3] part of the Bruti family,[4] who worked for Venice in the cities of Ulqin and Ragusa[5] working with Venetian-Ottoman relations.[6] [7]

Family background

Bruti moved to Ulqin in 1537 fleeing Ottomans. He had three sons; Bartolomeo, Benedetto and Jacomo. Bruti was married to Maria Bruni, of the Bruni family. Brutis brother, Antonio Bruni, was born in the 1550s. His son was Bartolomeo Bruti (1557-1591) who died in Moldavia from strangulation. Antonio Bruti was educated by the Jesuits.

Career

During his career, Bruti bargained with the Ottomans the grain necessary to feed Catholic Venice.[8] The high costs of wheat caused "extreme misery" in the city of Venice forcing the governor of Budva to detain Antonios shipment of wheat.[9] In 1560, Bruti sent a petition to Venice listing the services he had performed. He was Ulqin's most prominent trader of grain.[10] In 1537 Antonio Bruti commanded a military ship and fought for the defence of Ulqin and Bar against the Ottomans. During his time in Ulqin, he tried to shape and form the minds of the local Albanians to join Venice to oppose Ottoman rule[11] In 1570 Antonio Bruti described the walls of Ulqin as "weak and extremely dangerous"[12] According to Venetian historian Andrea Morosini, Antonio Bruti had refused to surrender Ulqin to the Ottomans and fearing hostility, he threw himself in the ocean and was later captured by Ali Muezinzade Pasha.[13] Noel Malcolm believes that Antonio Bruti was on board on war ships in Corfu in July 1570.[14] He died in 1571 when Ottomans sieged Ulqin and killed him.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Schwartz . Stephen . Through Albanian Eyes . The Weekly Standard . 21 March 2019 . en . 29 January 2016.
  2. Book: Malcolm . Noel . Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-century Mediterranean World . 2015 . Oxford University Press . 9780190262785 . 51 . en.
  3. Web site: Jerry Brotton . Brotton . Jerry . Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm, review: 'a quite miraculous feat' . 13 June 2015.
  4. Web site: Malaj . Edmond . Familja fisnike Bruti nga Durrësi (The Noble Family Bruti from Durazzo. Albanian) . Studime Historike, Nr. 3-4, 2015 . January 2015 . 21 March 2019.
  5. Web site: Holly S. Hurlburt . Matt Vester . Noel Malcolm. Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 640 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-026278-5. . (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) . 21 March 2019.
  6. Web site: Castellani . Erasmo . Navigating the Amoral Fluidity of the Early Modern Mediterranean: Noel Malcolm's Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits & Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean Oxford University Press, 2015, 640 pp. (page 5) .
  7. Book: MARTIN . JOHN JEFFRIES . BETWEEN ISTANBUL AND VENICE AGENCY, FAITH, AND EMPIRE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTUR Y . Duke University . 221.
  8. Web site: Gallagher . John . Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm review – a dazzling history of the 16th-century Mediterranean . The Guardian . Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm review – a dazzling history of the 16th‑century Mediterranean During this fascinating era in the region, Christian states faced a Muslim superpower . 21 March 2019 . 10 June 2015.
  9. http://www.lander.odessa.ua/doc/Noel%20Malcolm_Agents%20of%20Empire.pdf, page. 128
  10. Book: Malcolm . Noel . Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World . 2015 . Penguin Books Limited . 9780141978369 . en.
  11. http://www.lander.odessa.ua/doc/Noel%20Malcolm_Agents%20of%20Empire.pdf, page. 133
  12. http://www.lander.odessa.ua/doc/Noel%20Malcolm_Agents%20of%20Empire.pdf, page 143.
  13. http://www.lander.odessa.ua/doc/Noel%20Malcolm_Agents%20of%20Empire.pdf, page 145
  14. http://www.lander.odessa.ua/doc/Noel%20Malcolm_Agents%20of%20Empire.pdf, page 130
  15. http://www.lander.odessa.ua/doc/Noel%20Malcolm_Agents%20of%20Empire.pdf, page 194

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