Byzantine Imagery in the Venetian Political Myth of the First Half of the 15<sup>th</sup> century: Lorenzo de’ Monaci’s Chronicle
This paper observes the view on the Byzantine Empire of the Venetian intellectual Lorenzo de' Monaci. The author pays special attention to his construction of the images of the Byzantine emperors (e.g. Michael VIII Palaiologos), analyzes how the previous Venetian tradition of portraying Byzantium (in the works of Marino Sanudo, Andrea Dandolo etc.) was developed in Monaci’s chronicle. The chronicler represented the Greeks and the Venetians as cultural and political antipodes.