[116] The anonymous traveller (?Domenico of Brescia) who describes Athens about 1466 speaks of the city as “ultimamente murata.” (Mitteilungen des K. deutschen Arch. Instituts, XXIV. 74.)
[117] Tozzetti, Relazione di alcuni viaggi fatti in ... Toscana, V. 439, 440. This letter, dated “Kyriaceo die, iv Kal. Ap.,” fixes the year of the second visit, because March 29 fell on a Sunday in 1444, and we know from another letter, written before June 1444, that Cyriacus left Chalkis for Chios, where the letter about Athens was written, on “v Kal. Mart.” of that year.
[118] Jahrbuch der K. preussischen Kunstsammlungen, IV. 81.
[119] Studi e documenti di Storia e di Diritto, XV. 337.
[120] Jorga in Revue de l’Orient Latin, VIII. 78.
[121] Kampouroglos, Μνημεῖα (Memorials), III. 141. The legend places the scene in a still more romantic spot than Megara—the monastery of Daphni, the mausoleum of the French dukes.
[122] A contemporary note in MS., No. 103 of the Liturgical section of the National Library at Athens, fixes the date as “May 4, 1456, Friday”; but in that year June 4, not May 4, was on a Friday, which agrees with the date of June 1456 given by Phrantzes, the Chronicon breve, the Historia Patriarchica, and Gaddi.
[123] Archivio Storico per le province Napoletane, XXVIII. 203.
[124] De Rossi, Inscriptiones Christianæ Urbis Romæ, II. i. 374.
[125] Spon, Voyage, II. 155, 172.