A Glimpse into the Seismicity of the Ionian Islands Between 1658 and 1664 - Historical Seismology: Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes - page 48

only are used in tables, figures and text, while of course the original ones have been
preserved in transcribing the documents.
The dates are given in the “New Style” (not yet in use in the Greek area at that
time) only, or both in the “New Style” and in the “Old Style”, abbreviated in “S.V.”
( Stile Vecchio ), to maintain the original Italian wording.
A Documentary Appendix supplies the reader with full references and text
of the documents in their original language; documents from the State Archive
of Venice are in Italian only, Degenfeld's text (1670 ca ) is both in German and
in English translation.
4.1 Tuesday (3 S.V.) 13 August 1658, St. Dominic's
Day Eve, Kefallinia
The entry by Shebalin et al. (1974) is supported by Montandon (1953), rely-
ing upon a footnote that Perrey added to Barbiani and Barbiani (1864) (Fig. 3).
Papazachos and Papazachou (1989 and 1997) quote mainly from Partsch (1890)
and Tsitselis (1960); Papazachos and Papazachou (2003) add the modern compila-
tion by Spiropoulos (1997).
There are two sources of information, directly or indirectly known to the com-
pilers of the parametric catalogues (Fig. 3), and worth to be mentioned: Ricciolio
(1669) and Pignatorre (1887), though none of them gives the complete date of
the earthquake. Used by Perrey, Ricciolio (1669) most probably took his infor-
mation from Theatrum Europaeum (1667) (not shown in Fig. 3). What the The-
atrum Europaeum reports is that in the year 1658 in the island of Kefallinia, located
between Epirus and Peloponnese, two villages ruined because of a strong earth-
quake. Pignatorre (1887) in his history of Kefallinia refers to a dispatch dated
30 August 1658, written by Marin Marcello, Provveditore Generale alle Isole del
Levante . This dispatch does not exist among those stored at the State Archives of
Venice; they are numbered, no gaps exist in the period 4 August-29 September and
the only two dealing with the earthquake are dated 18 August (ASVe, 1658b) and
29 September (ASVe, 1658e). Probably Pignatorre cut and pasted pieces of some
dispatches written by Marin Marcello (Fig. 3), then stored at the archives of the town
of Kerkyra. In all, these sources supply only a partial and incomplete description of
the 1658 earthquake.
In contrast to this scarcity, it is now possible to present a thorough description
of the effects of the 13 August 1658 earthquake (Table 1 and Fig. 4), thanks to the
coeval records supplied by the Venetian officers in their documents (Fig. 3, oval
framed documents). The Venetian Provveditore in Kefallinia, Alvise Gritti, begins
his dispatch of 5 August (S.V.) comparing the violence of this earthquake with the
one experienced by the inhabitants of Kefallinia in 1636 (ASVe, 1658a). The first
shock occurred at sunset on 3 August (S.V.), eve of St. Dominic's Day, celebrated on
4 August. Damage is reported in Argostolion, Lixourion ( Lixuri ) and in the district
of Palichi ( Palachi ), where houses and churches collapsed or were damaged beyond