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Fig. 4
Map showing the
places and area (
Palichi
)
damaged by the 1658
earthquake. Not Felt (
NF
)
means that coeval and local
sources do not mention
effects in Zakynthos
hundred people died or were injured in the districts of Palichi and Lixourion, which
were spared by the 1636 earthquake.
In one of his first dispatches, some sixteen months later (ASVe, 1659b), the new
Provveditore
in Kefallinia, Francesco Valier, reports to the Senate that some pub-
lic buildings in Argostolion are still in bad conditions “because of the past earth-
quakes”.
In the period when the earthquake occurred, harsh disorders among factions
were upsetting Lixourion; both the local and the general governors report that
such disorders were momentarily calmed down by the violence of the earthquake
(ASVe, 1658a, b). The earthquake is recalled also in a document, written ap-
proximately one year after the earthquake, concerning the trial against one of the
ringleaders (ASVe, 1659a). In late September 1658, Piero Zen,
Provveditore
of
the fortress in Assos (
Asso
), reports the damage to the fortress and the buildings
inside it (ASVe, 1658d), on the occasion of a visit of the
Provveditore Generale
(ASVe, 1658e); such damage was repaired within approximately two years (ASVe,
1660a).
The coeval documents do not mention effects in Zakynthos (ASVe, 1658-1659)
nor in Kerkyra (ASVe, 1657-1661).
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