קח THE TURKS BESIEGE CORFU. 277 make peace with the uncircumcised at that time, fearing lest the Turks should come unto Rome; and he called unto his son Pietro Luigi*, and made him chief captain of his host. For this pope had children by his wife, who died before he was made priest. And Pietro Luigi came into the city with a mighty hand. And they fortified the city round about, for the fear of Barbarossa fell upon them. The viceroy of the emperor also, who was at Naples, hired soldiers, and put a garrison into the midst of his city. 968. And Barbarossa returned unto Avlonat, and made the savor of the men of Venice to be abhorred; and brought their evil report unto Solymans, whose wrath was kindled against them. And he put it into his heart to make war against Corfu, and brought over his hosts which were in the land of Otranto; and they came unto him, and when he heard what they had done in Castro, which was not according to the law of the covenant||, his wrath was much kindled against them. And he sent the captives away free; but the men who had violated the covenant he brought down to the grave in blood. 969. And Solyman, and all the people who .פידרו לואיז * הוילונה + § Gen. xxxvii. 2. Exod. v. 21. Comp. Esth. iv. 16. 278 THE SIEGE OF CORFU RAISED. קט were with him, went and passed over the river Viosa*; and he went unto Bastia, which is over against Corfu, with only the sea between; and he pitched his tent there; and also Barbarossa came by the way of the sea unto Corfu, on the twentyseventh day of the month of August; and they went on shore and burned the houses and destroyed the best part thereof. And the rest of the ships came; and the houses which were in Sorpha and Potamot they burned with fire, and their smoke went up toward heaven. 970. And Solyman passed over his army unto Corfu with about twenty-five thousand men in ships; and they encamped there. And Solyman himself passed not over thither, but sent Ayas Pashat, his vezir, day by day; [p] and they besieged Corfu round about. And they shot destroyed much upon them great stones, and people. And in the midst of the city were two nobles of Venice, and six captains of the host; and they stood on their ward, and filled their hand in those days. 971. And when the Turks saw that they had no power in their hand to take it, they pulled down their tents on the fourteenth day of the seventh .ואיוסה * † IDROID NTD. Sorfa is perhaps S. Onofrio. INN. Comp. v. Hanmer's Gesch. d. Osmanischen Reiches III. 186-188. קט GEROLAMO DI PESARO. 279 month, and went away from it and passed over to the coast of Bastia, and returned unto their own country. And Solyman went unto Constantinople, the city of his kingdom, and abode there many days; and the ships also went their way. 972. And Gerolamo di Pesaro, the chief captain of the Venetian host, fled from the face of Barbarossa, before he came and spake with Juan Vittore*, the chief captain of the host in Mortara†, and they assembled there. And Gerolamo went to war against Scardonat, which is about ten miles from the sea; and they besieged it, and cast up banks against it from morning until noon; and they took it with a strong hand. And in the midst thereof was an Ethiopian, a mighty man of valor, who could shoot with a gun at a hair's breadth, and not misss; and he did great things on that day. many they slew with the edge of the sword when they came into the city; and they slew the Ethiopian, beside the rest of them that were slain; and the cry of the city went up toward heaven||, and there was none to deliver; and they gave it to be plundered and Gerolamo commanded, and they cast down its houses to the ground, and it became a heap for ever until this day¶. And Juan Vittore And .ויטורי * .סקארדונה ! Num. xxxi. 8. .מורטארה * § Jud. xx. 16. Josh. xxviii. 28. 280 LEAGUE AGAINST SOLYMAN. קט went unto Zara*, and found there Gabriel, the chief captain of the host, and they made an appointment theret; and he sent three of the captains of the marines with Gabriel. And they went to war against Abruzzo on the twenty-ninth day of the seventh month. And they besieged it, and cast up banks against it; and they burned the suburbs of the city and its houses round about. And many of the uncircumcised fell slain to the ground; and they went off from it with shame, for the famine was sore. And it came to pass, when they returned unto Zara, that the Turks went out against them in the way, and discomfited them with the edge of the sword; and they that remained were taken alive: and Gabriel fled away on his feets, and he escaped with the few men who were with him. And the wrath of Gerolamo di Pesaro was kindled against him; and they took him at Zara, and he beheaded him, and brought him down to the grave in blood. And of the three generals of the host who went with him, no man knoweth of their sepulchre until this day¶. 973. Then the emperor, and the pope, and the men of Venice, heartily agreed to make war against Solyman. And they chose Francesco Maria, the * .זארה .אוברואצו ? || 2 Sam. iv. 7. + Job. ii. 11. § Jud. iv. 17. Deut. xxxiv. 6. קט A.M. 5295. FRANCIS IN ITALY, A.D. 1537. 281 duke of Urbino, and Andrea Doria to be the chief captains of the host, by land and by sea at that time. 974. And the famine was sore in Turin and Pinerolo*, and they ate the horses and the mules for want of all thingst; because of the fury of the oppressor. And when King Francis heard it, it displeased him, and they passed over into Italy, he and his son, with much people, and with a strong hand§, in the eighth month two hundred and ninety-eight, in the year one thousand five hundred and thirty-seven; and the grand-master passed over before them, and sent soldiers unto Pinerolo with corn, and bread, and meat||, and four battering-rams. And Cesare di Napoli, who was sent to watch the passage of the mountains, fled before them, and his men were slain by the edge of the sword. The marquess also, and the soldiers, fled at the cry of them, and passed over the river Po in haste, near Montcalier**, and they fortified themselves there. And the horsemen of the king pursued after them, and smote among the * Pinerolo, on the river Cluson, in the valley of Perouse in Piedmont, remained in the possession of the French from 1536 to 1574. Deut. xxvii. 57. § Num. xx. 20. ¶ Num. xvi. 34. Is. li. 14. ** .Moncaglieri מונקאליר |