"Ritratto del Tartaro Cane": the Khan written as "Cane" (Rome, 1596)

SUMMARY"Ritratto del Tartaro Cane": the Khan written as "Cane" (Rome, 1596) (Nov 5, 2026). From Tito's images: an engraving published by Giovanni Orlandi in Rome. Label: Record (the inscription) + CODE.
RECORD, the inscription as shown: "Ritratto del Tartaro Cane amazato per mano del Serenissimo Principe di Transilvania alli 19 di Giugno 1596 sotto Temisuar" ("Portrait of the Tartar Khan, killed by the hand of the Most Serene Prince of Transylvania, June 19, 1596, near Temesvár"); signed "Ioan. Orlandi formis." A companion plate shows "Andolfo Conte di Barzenburgo" (Adolf von Schwarzenberg), who took the fortress of "Giavarino" (Győr, called Raab or Javarino) on March 29, 1598, with turbaned Ottoman defenders on the walls. Both belong to the Long Turkish War (1593–1606), when the Crimean Tatar Khans fought for the Ottomans.
RECORD, the spelling: Italian printers wrote the Khan's title as "Cane"; Columbus wrote "Can" for the Grand Khan and "Caniba" for the people he tied to him (P627); in Italian, cane also means "dog."
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PATTERNKhan, Can, Cane, Caniba, cannibal: the ruler's title slides into "dog" and "man-eater" in European print. Columbus's journal (November 23, 1492) records talk of people "with one eye in their foreheads and others which they called Canibales," who "would devour them."

LENS (WW9)they turned the Khan into a dog and a cannibal on paper, in both the Old World and the New

OPENwhether the dog pun was intended in any 1500s source; the Khan's identity in the 1596 plate (Crimean Tatar commanders at Temesvár). Needs deep research.