[686] Napier’s “Florentine History,” vol. iv. book ii. p. 36.
[687] “This,” remarks Captain Napier, “is probably a mistake in copying the MS., or a typographical error, and is more likely to be three thousand botti (to judge from her great dimensions), unless the ‘botti’ signified more in ship measurement than in the markets.”
[688] Vol. ii. p. 7.
[689] The original drawing is said to have been made at Genoa in 1542; but M. Jal thinks it later, and that Charnock has misread 1542 for 1642—Arch. Nas. ii. p. 215.
[690] See Pardessus, vol. ii.
[691] For details of the war with Ancona about A.D. 1167, see Smedley, “Sketches,” vol. i. p. 67, &c.
[692] Amalfi was taken by the Pisans A.D. 1137.—Sismondi, vol. i. p. 203.
[693] Pisa contributed the aid of its ships to the first and third Crusades, but, like Genoa, declined to join in the fourth. (Gibbon, ch. lx.) Its trade with Alexandria is mentioned as early as A.D. 823 by Muratori, Ant. v.
[694] The sack of Pisa was no doubt in return for the aid they had given to the Crusaders, from whom they had themselves derived great advantages, with many privileges and charters from the princes of Antioch and kings of Jerusalem. See original Charters ap. Muratori Ant. v., and Stellæ Chronic. ibid.
[695] Brev. Hist. Pis. ap. Muratori V. vi. col. 186. In 1249 Pisan sailors were in the fleet of Louis IX. at Damietta.—Matth. Paris, p. 793.