[463] The Barbary Corsairs, p. 105.
[464] According to Engel (§ 45), out of 13 Ragusan vessels 7 were lost, and at Isola di Mezzo alone there were 300 widows.
[465] Razzi, ii. xvii.
[466] Horatio Brown, Venice, p. 364.
[467] Lorenzo Miniati was then Tuscan consul at Ragusa, and was entrusted with the duty of informing his Government of all the rumours as to the movements of the Turks which he might hear; Makushev, op. cit., p. 495.
[468] Ibid., 501, 1566.
[469] Engel, § 45.
[470] Razzi, iii. xx.
[471] Min. Cons., June 5, 1570; Polizze Off. 5 Ragioni, Feb. 30, 1570.
[472] Gelcich, pp. 84 and 87.