Marino Sanuto the Younger

Marino Sanuto the Younger (1466–1536) was a patrician, historian and diarist, the son of the senator Leonardo Sanuto. Elected to the Great Council at twenty and a senator from 1498, he kept a daily record of the republic's politics, diplomacy and news, granted access to the state's secret archives.

His Diarii filled fifty-eight volumes covering 1496 to 1533. Twice passed over for the post of official historian, he received a senate pension in 1531 and died in 1536.