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Fig. 6
Map showing the
places damaged by the 1660
earthquake. Not Felt (
NF
)
means that coeval and local
sources do not mention
effects in Zakynthos
1662c). The documents report that the state of disrepair of the monastery is due to
the earthquakes, though no dates are given. Mocenigo endorses such request in a
later dispatch (ASVe, 1662d), stressing that no other place on the island is available
for Latin religious offices.
These documents are discussed here because we refer them to the 1658 and 1660
earthquakes. There are no hints that such damage was caused by the March 1662 earth-
quake (see below), while (i) it is highly probable that a plea had been sent previously
(and not filed in this series); (ii) such a lack of financial (and religious) sensitivity from
Venice was a habitual behaviour during the war against the Turks for Crete.
4.3 1661
Some records have been found about earthquake effects in the year 1661 at
Zakynthos, the Strofades Islands (south of Zakynthos, west of Peloponnese), and
Kefallinia (Fig. 7). Except for the record on Zakynthos, the other two do not carry
the day and month of occurrence. The information is supplied for the sake of com-
pleteness, though at this stage it is not detailed enough to refer all the records, and
especially the one about Kefallinia, to one and the same earthquake.
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