The So-Called Chronicle of Jacopo Tedaldi and the Echo of the Fall of Constantinople at the Burgundian Court

This paper deals with the Chronicle on the fall of Constantinople by the Florentine merchant Jacopo Tedaldi. By analysing the manuscript tradition of this source, one can observe that it widely spread across the Duchy of Burgundy immediately after the Turkish conquest of the Polis. Studying the textual tradition of Tedaldi’s Chronicle, therefore, largely means investigating the echo of the fall of Byzantium at the court of Duke Philip the Good. By comparing all existing versions of Tedaldi’s work between them, it is definitely possible to understand – at least in large part – how the politicians of the most pro-Byzantine court in the West perceived the end of the Basileia ton Romaion.