[133] The commonest are: Bassegli, Bobali, Bodazza, Bona, Bonda, Bubagna, Caboga, Ghetaldi, Gondola, Gozze, Luccari, Raguina, Resti, Saraca, Sorgo, &c. Only a few, such as Zlatarich, are purely Slavonic. The whole question of the relative proportions of Italians and Slaves in Dalmatia is very obscure. Even to this day, owing to the bitterness of party feeling, it is impossible to obtain reliable statistics.
[134] Save the treaties with the Slavonic states, which are mostly published in the original Servian in Miklosich’s Monumenta Serbica.
[135] The number of members varied at different times.
[136] Gelcich, p. 32.
[137] Luccari.
[138] Lib. Ref., v. p. 307.
[139] The age was afterwards lowered to eighteen years.
[140] This account is based on that given in Luccari, save for such changes as occurred between the Venetian period and the early seventeenth century, when Luccari’s book was published.
[141] Stephen Uroš II. Milutin (1275-1321).
[142] Lebret, Staatsgeschichte der Republik Venedig, i. 598. Engel, who gives a similar account, attributes the raid to Stephen Kotromanić, Banus of Bosnia, which is clearly a mistake, as Ragusa was at that time on excellent terms with him.