La Guerra di Candia - Venice's defence of Crete

I bought these two on a whim this week. They fall into the Baroque era covered by my 1670's armies, and with my Ottomans as yet untested on the tabletop I thought this campaign might be interesting and provide the seeds for a few games or a campaign. I think (but am not sure) that this war features briefly in the classic "Saraband for Dead Lovers" as certainly troops from Hanover/Celle were hired out to fight the Turks and some were garrisoned in Candia (Crete). 

Set in seventeenth century Hanover it depicts the doomed romance between Philip Christoph von Königsmarck and Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the wife of the Elector of Hanover (later to be George I of England).

Back to the books, Crete was in a state of almost permanent siege during this period, so provides plenty of gaming opportunities. The books are in Italian but are lavishly illustrated and these have English captions and explanations, so my schoolboy Italian won't be tested too much to start with.