Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent

by Hester Donaldson Jenkins

[6] Th. Noldecke, “Geschichte Suleimans des Ersten,” in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, vol. xii, 1858, p. 220.

[7] I Diarii di Marini Sanuto, vol. xxxv, p. 258 (published Venice, 1879).

Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneti, ed. by Albèri, Series III, vol. iii. Report of Pietro Zen, 1524, p. 95.

Solakzadeh, Tarih Osmanieh (Constantinople, 1297, A. H.).

M. Baudier, The History of the Imperial Estate of the Grand Seigneurs (1635, trans. by Grimeston), p. 171.

Parga, a village on the coast of Greece, opposite Corfu, under Venetian domination in the sixteenth century.

[8] He himself told the embassador Zara in 1532 that he was born the same week as Suleiman. Cf. Urkunden und Actenstücke zur Geschichte der Verhältnisse zwischen Oesterreich, Ungarn, und der Pforte im XVI und XVII Jahrhunderte. Aus Archiven und Bibliotheken, Anton von Gévay (Wien, 1840).

[9] Ibid., also Pietro Zen, op. cit.

[10] “Suonava a perfezione il violino.” Albèri, III, 3, p. 95, Pietro Zen.

[11] Baudier tells the latter story, Pietro Zen the former. Guillaume Postel (Poitiers, 1560) gives a slightly different version. He says that Ibrahim was captured for a soldier in Selim’s reign and sold to Iskender Chelebi, the treasurer of Anatolia. This is interesting in view of his later relations with Iskender, but is not sustained by other witnesses.