A Glimpse into the Seismicity of the Ionian Islands Between 1658 and 1664 - Historical Seismology: Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes - page 61

Fig. 8 Scheme of relationships among the parametric earthquake catalogues and their sources for
the 1662 earthquake. The dotted line shows which references wrongly date the earthquake at 1664.
ASVe, 1664a and 1664c are the documents previously used to date the earthquake at 1664. Framed
by an oval are the newly retrieved coeval documents
Archive of Venice, including the same two mentioned by Barbiani and Barbiani
(1864). The documentation has been read again and put in a wider chronological
and administrative context, and to it it has been added the original testimony by von
Degenfeld (1670 ca ) (Table 4).
In this case there are two reliable eyewitnesses who left us their descriptions
of the earthquakes: one is Francesco Mocenigo, Provveditore Generale alle Isole
del Levante , who was visiting Zakynthos from mid February to mid April 1662
(ASVe, 1662b); the other is the author of the manuscript presented in an ear-
lier Section 3.2 of this paper, Christoff von Degenfeld (1670 ca ), the German