ABSTRACT
On 31 December 1821, Antonio Vondiziano, representative of the Levant Company in Larnaca, Cyprus sat at his desk in the comfortable surroundings of his house, nicely furnished with imported European furniture, to write his report to their magnificences, the Governors of the Company. He begins his report with business, he makes sure to insert his requests concerning his own share of the proceeds in the Company's accounts and then he turns to the tragedy of the year that was drawing to a close that evening. The main value of the report as a source of evidence consists in enhancing the perspective on the events, which in their details have been mostly known through the French Consul's account. By enhancing the documentary evidence Vondiziano's report adds nuance and texture to our knowledge of a critical and tragic episode in the history of the island, an episode of great symbolic significance in subsequent historiography.
