Editing Fall of Constantinople (section)

===Eyewitness accounts===
# [[Mehmed Şems el-Mille ve'd Din]], Sufi holy man who gives an account in a letter
# [[Tursun Beg]], wrote a history entitled ''Tarih-i Abu'l Fath''
# [[George Sphrantzes]], the only Greek eyewitness who wrote about it, but his laconic account is almost entirely lacking in narrative
# [[Leonard of Chios]], wrote a report to Pope Nicholas V
# [[Nicolò Barbaro]], physician on a Venetian galley who kept a journal
# [[Angelino Giovanni Lomellini]], Genoese ''podestà'' of Pera who wrote a report dated 24 June 1453
# [[Jacopo Tetaldi]], Florentine merchant
# [[Isidore of Kiev]], Eastern Catholic churchman who wrote eight letters to Italy
# [[Benvenuto (Anconitan consul)|Benvenuto]], Anconitan consul in Constantinople
# [[Ubertino Puscolo]], Italian poet learning Greek in the city, wrote an epic poem
# [[Eparkhos and Diplovatatzes]], two refugees whose accounts has become garbled through multiple translations
# [[Nestor Iskander]], youthful eyewitness who wrote a Slavonic account
# [[Samile the Vladik]], bishop who, like Eparkhos and Diplovatatzes, fled as a refugee to [[Wallachia]]
# [[Konstantin Mihailović]], Serbian who fought on the Ottoman side
# a report by some [[Franciscans|Franciscan]] prisoners of war who later came to Bologna