Florio Bustron

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Florio Bustron (1500s - post-1568, perhaps 1570), was a 16th century administrator, jurist and historian. Florio became a prominent administrative figure when Cyprus was under Venetian rule. He came from a family possibly of Syrian origin, with Greek and Latinised members.[1][2] According to John Sozomenos who described the siege of Nicosia by the Ottomans in 1570, he died during the Turkish invasion.[3] His work Historia overo commentarii de Cipro was written in Italian prose. A part of his chronicle concerns the final years of the Kingdom of Cyprus with the internal crisis between Queen Charlotte and James the Bastard.[4] He was related to another Cypriot chronicler, Georgios Boustronios, Florio based part of his narrative to the earlier chronicle by Georgios, their chronicles both end in 1489.[5] Florio Bustron also makes one of the earliest references to Halloumi (in Italian, ‘calumi’) made from a mixture of sheep’s and goat’s milk.[6] The chronicle was later published by René de Mas Latrie, son of the French Historian Luis de Mas Latrie and it was reprinted in 1998 in Nicosia.

Publications[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Coureas, Nicholas (2019-03-05). Chequered Fortunes: Foreign Soldiers on Cyprus under King James II (1460–1473) and Their Portrayal in the Cypriot Chronicles. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-39207-6.
  2. ^ Nicolaou-Konnari, Angel (2016-09-13). "Bustron, Florio". Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.
  3. ^ Patapiou, Nasa; Lazarou, Chrystalleni (2013). "Hiromeri: A Specialty Ham of Cyprus—Historical Evidence, Culinary and Cultural Perspectives". Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 52 (3): 239–250. doi:10.1080/03670244.2012.706141. ISSN 0367-0244.
  4. ^ Beihammer, Alexander (2013-06-01). "The Kingdom of Cyprus and Muslim–Christian Diplomacy in the Age of Mehmed the Conqueror". Crusades. 12 (1): 197–232.
  5. ^ Coureas, Nicholas; Andreas, Orphanides (2007). "Piracy in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Later Lusignan and Venetian Periods (15th-16th Centuries)" (PDF). Eπετηρίδα του Κέντρου Επιστημονικών Ερευνών. XXXIII: 121–162.
  6. ^ Papademas, P. (2006-07-19), Tamime, Adnan (ed.), "Halloumi Cheese", Brined Cheeses, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd, pp. 117–138, doi:10.1002/9780470995860.ch4, ISBN 978-0-470-99586-0, retrieved 2021-02-24
Retrieved from ""