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===Non-eyewitness accounts=== # [[Doukas (historian)|Doukas]], a Byzantine Greek historian, one of the most important sources for the last decades and eventual fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans # [[Laonikos Chalkokondyles]], a Byzantine Greek historian # [[Michael Critobulus|Michael Kritoboulos]], a Byzantine Greek historian # [[Makarios Melissourgos]], 16th-century historian who augmented the account of Sphrantzes, not very reliably # [[Paolo Dotti]], Venetian official on Crete whose account is based on oral reports # Fra Girolamo's letter from Crete to [[Domenico Capranica]] # [[Lauro Quirini]], wrote a report to Pope Nicholas V from Crete based on oral reports # [[Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini]] (Pope Pius II), wrote an account based on written sources # [[Henry of Soemmern]], wrote a letter dated 11 September 1453 in which he cites his sources of information # [[Niccola della Tuccia]], whose ''Cronaca di Viterbo'' written in the autumn of 1453 contains unique information # [[Niccolò Tignosi da Foligno]], ''Expugnatio Constantinopolitana'', part of a letter to a friend # [[Filippo da Rimini]], ''Excidium Constantinopolitanae urbis quae quondam Bizantium ferebatur'' # [[Antonio Ivani da Sarzana]], ''Expugnatio Constantinopolitana'', part of a letter to the duke of Urbino # [[Nikolaos Sekoundinos]], read a report before the Venetian Senate, the Pope and the Neapolitan court # [[Giacomo Languschi]], whose account is embedded in the Venetian chronicle of [[Zorzi Dolfin]], had access to eyewitnesses # [[John Moskhos (15th century)|John Moskhos]], wrote a poem in honour of Loukas Notaras # [[Adamo di Montaldo]], ''De Constantinopolitano excidio ad nobilissimum iuvenem Melladucam Cicadam'', which contains unique information # [[Ashikpashazade]], included a chapter on the conquest in his ''Tarih-i al-i Osman''<ref name="Angold" /> # [[Neshri]], included a chapter on the conquest in his universal history<ref name="Angold" /> # [[Evliya Çelebi]], 17th-century traveller who collected local traditions of the conquest<ref name="Angold" />
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