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Knauer referenced Burckhardt in conjunction with her discussion of the two Black African oarsmen in Vittore Carpaccio's Hunting on the Lagoon (circa 1492–1494; figure 1), but did not offer any discussion of either Burckhardt's brief speculation about Othello or the Renaissance source that had prompted it.2 The text in which Burckhardt had found mention of a Black African commander was Alessandro Benedetti's Diaria de bello carolino (Diary of the Caroline War), which was first published (almost certainly in Venice, and probably by Aldus Manutius) either in 1496 or shortly thereafter.3 The relevant passage reads: "Finally, since it was not without gratitude in the smallest matters, the Senate presented to the wife of Johannis Aethiops [John the Ethiopian], now a widow, 72 ducats each year from the treasury and a home forever. Sanuto, whose narrative of the opening phase of the Italian wars was not published until 1873—which explains why it escaped the attention of Burckhardt in his 1869 note—gives a similar account in a section titled "Remuneration made by the Venetian state to many deserving persons for the operations at the Taro": "To the wife of one Zuan Bianco [John White] who was a commander [contestabele], who died at the aforementioned event [Fornovo], who was a most valiant [or capable] Black African [saracino valentissimo], was given a house in the citadel of Verona, where she might live, and six ducats a month for life. Photo: The Picture Art Collection. Six ducats a month (seventy-two a year) in addition to free housing for life would have provided a comfortable existence for the widow and children, and this level of remuneration was provided to the families of several other slain military captains in this era.