Empires of the Sea - the Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521-1580 (39 page)

“his heart touched…to the Catholic Faith”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 587

“Turks, Turks!” ibid., p. 586

“heavily armed and very fat”
ibid., p. 589

“These poor creatures”
Balbi (1961), p. 104

“With an enormous flash”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 597

“in cloth of gold…and magnificent bows”
Balbi (2003), p. 111

“strangely dressed…and chanting imprecations”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 603

“if it had not been so dangerous”
Balbi (2003), p. 111

“yet in spite of this”
ibid., p. 112

“I don’t know…throwing one another back, falling and firing”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 606

“with pikes, swords, shields, and stones”
ibid., p. 605

“wearing a large black headdress”
Balbi (2003), p. 114

“but before giving up”
Balbi (1961), p. 113

“Relief! Victory!” Bosio, vol. 3, p. 604

“the Greek traitor”
ibid.

“Kill! Kill!…dispatched them”
ibid., p. 605

“like the Red Sea…battle had been fought”
ibid.

“a great deal of hashish”
Balbi (2003), p. 116

“Saint Elmo’s pay”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 605

CHAPTER
13:
TRENCH WARS

“I sent you over to Malta”
Cassola (1995), pp. 26–7

“make sure that”
ibid., pp. 26–7

“We realise in how great peril”
Setton, vol. 4, p. 858

“mostly a rabble and”
ibid., p. 855

“If Malta is not helped”
Merriman (1962), vol. 4, p. 117

“Its loss would be greater”
Setton, vol. 4, p. 869

“if he had not aided your Majesty”
ibid., p. 866

“a bombardment so continuous”
Cirni, fol. 85

“by the will of God”
Balbi (2003), p. 133

“trying to amuse him”
ibid., p. 130

“Omer has performed outstanding service”
Cassola (1995), p. 147 et seq.

“When the admiral”
Peçevi, p. 290

“He doubted that the water would hold out”
Cirni, fol. 87

“like a moving earthquake”
ibid.

“These we found in the same condition”
Bonello, p. 142

“I can’t see any of these dogs”
Balbi (1961), p. 137

“This is the day to die”
Balbi (2003), p. 144

“pike in hand, as if he were a common soldier”
ibid.

“Seeing it”
Balbi (2003), pp. 144–5

“The assaults on this day”
Balbi (1961), p. 138

“without heads, without arms and legs”
Cirni, fol. 97

“Victory and relief!” Balbi (2003), p. 145

“to the affront to the sultan’s name”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 636

“The
chaush
Abdi”
Cassola (1995), p. 32

“I have often left guards”
Bonello, p. 142

“an enjoyable game hunt”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 645

“out of sheer joie de vivre”
ibid.

CHAPTER
14:
“MALTA YOK”

“Our men are in large part dead”
Bonello, p. 147

“We were sometimes so close”
Balbi (2003), p. 165

“some of the Turks…three loaves and a cheese”
Cirni, fol. 114

“that God did not want Malta to be taken”
ibid.

“Due to the urgent need”
Spiteri, p. 635

“that their bolts could pierce”
Balbi (1961), p. 160

“stick in hand”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 678

“They did not move”
Balbi (1961), p. 158

“Four hundred men still alive…don’t lose an hour”
Merriman (1962), vol. 4, p. 118

“providing it could be done”
Fernandez Duro, p. 83

“from the water both from the sky and the sea”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 678

“They continued to bombard”
Balbi (1961), p. 165

“miserable and horrible”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 687

“who by his clothing and bearing”
ibid., p. 693

“And having done that”
ibid.

“Relief, relief! Victory! Victory!…of the most holy reputation”
ibid., p. 694

“Not even at the point”
Balbi (1961), p. 184

“so great that I maintain…many died”
ibid.

“Kill them!”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 701

“We could not estimate”
Balbi (2003), pp. 185–6

“arid, ransacked, and ruined”
Bosio, vol. 3, p. 705

“could not walk in the streets”
Braudel, vol. 2, p. 1020

“who fought during the Siege of Malta”
Cassola (1995), p. 36

“He has given orders”
Braudel, vol. 2, p. 1021

“Sultan of Sultans”
Alan Fisher, p. 4

“This chimney is still burning”
Hammer-Purgstall, vol. 6, p. 233

Part Three
ENDGAME: HURTLING TO LEPANTO
CHAPTER
15:
THE POPE’S DREAM

“by nature irascible”
Lesure, p. 56

“Turkish expansion is like the sea”
Crowley, p. 35

“too high an estimation of himself”
Lesure, p. 56

“He is extremely skillful”
ibid., pp. 57–8

“a slave of wickedness”
Beeching, p. 135

“a good man”
Braudel, vol. 2, p. 1029

“We should like it even better”
ibid.

“No one alone can resist it”
Setton, vol. 4, p. 912

“The Turk is only interested”
Braudel, vol. 2, p. 1045

“To carry out war”
Bicheno, p. 103

“It is better to treat all enemy rulers”
Mallett, p. 216

“to give heart and help to the Moors of Granada”
Braudel, vol. 2, p. 1066

“It was the saddest sight in the world”
ibid., p. 1072

“with a fine present”
Setton, vol. 4, p. 934

CHAPTER
16:
A HEAD IN A DISH

“an island thrust into the mouth of the wolf”
Setton, vol. 4, p. 1032

“All the inhabitants of Cyprus are slaves”
Hill, p. 798

“Selim, Ottoman Sultan”
ibid., p. 888

“the forces of his Catholic Majesty”
Setton, vol. 4, p. 955

“His Holiness has demonstrated the truth”
Parker (1979), p. 110

“It is clear that one of the principal reasons”
Braudel, vol. 2, p. 1083

“He is one of the greatest dissimulators”
Parker (1998), p. 33

“If we have to wait for death”
ibid., p. 65

“please the Pope and provide always for Christendom’s need”
Capponi, p. 130

“You shall obey Marc’Antonio Colonna…would bring upon Christendom”
Bicheno, p. 175

“that there would be no combat”
Setton, vol. 4, p. 973

“the king commands and wishes”
Capponi, p. 133

“obligation of preserving intact the fleet of Your Majesty”
Setton, vol. 4, p. 978

“and all this was done”
ibid.

“the eye of the island”
Hill, p. 861

“the finest and most scientific construction”
ibid., p. 849

“had neither muskets nor swords”
Excerpta Cypria
, p. 129

“Would to God we had lost him too!” ibid., p. 128

“No liberty did they get”
ibid., p. 132

“We were anxious to harass”
ibid., pp. 133–4

“I saw but little charity”
ibid., p. 136

“Everyone shall know at this crisis”
ibid., p. 133

“acquire honour by my goods”
Capponi, p. 153

“Though he pretends he is willing”
Hill, p. 922

“who had on a breastplate”
Excerpta Cypria
, p. 138

“our men were cut in pieces”
ibid.

“The Coadjutor fell killed by a musket ball”
ibid.

“You dogs, enemies of God”
ibid.

“but with no kind of order”
ibid., p. 139

“we took a great cross and exhorted them…and a few escaped”
ibid., p. 140

“here I say, we have the traitor”
ibid.

“Then a drunken Greek hoisted”
ibid.

“but the change was a sad and mournful one”
ibid.

“The victors kept cutting off the heads”
ibid.

“I have seen your letter”
Bicheno, pp. 167–70

CHAPTER
17:
FAMAGUSTA

“the loss of Nicosia”
Setton, vol. 4, p. 990

“God knows whether Famagusta”
ibid., p. 999

“to render the Venetians more satisfactory service”
ibid., p. 993