having died, he rejoices in the heavens, but has left us grieving his loss.

43.1 And I, forced by need on the 18th of April went out and departed for Ancona on the 17th of May. And on the 1st of June, I having gone out again, I departed by way of Viterbo, since we had learned that the cardinal was to be found there at the baths. In 9 days we reached Rome and having stayed at the hospice of our masters, the lord kyr Andreas and the young master kyr Manuel Palaiologos for 30 days, in which days I also venerated the tombs of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and of many other saints buried there. 43.2 And having inquired into the things in the great and famous and ancient city, on the 10th of July I went out and came by the direct road to Ancona and having waited a short time, I departed by sea for Venice on the 28th of the same. And I stayed there at the monastery of the Cross for 20 days, until August 23rd, that is, on which day, having departed late with God's help, we were saved here in Corfu on the 5th of the month of September of the year '75. 43.3 At which time we were staying in the environs of Rome and in Rome itself, the emir, ruler of the impious, having come against Albania and having pursued its lord Skanderbeg and having taken captive and laid waste the place and having built a fortress near its principal fortress, called Krujë, in order to fight against him, returned to the region of Constantinople. 43.4 And in the summer of the same year '74, Vittore Cappello having become captain general went to the island of Imbros and having fought, took it. And again he having gone to Athens, he took the whole country captive; but he having come to Old Patras around August, took the country. 43.5 When Amaris therefore made a raid to its assistance, the provveditore with those of the fleet and Raoul Michael Ises with many and good soldiers routed him completely and killed many of his men; and having pursued them for a long way, they did not turn to the task at hand, although the Greeks especially advised this, who were more knowledgeable of the place and of such things. But the provveditore, being elated and appearing rather harsh also towards them, as to why they were not pursuing, they pursued even though they did not know this to be a good thing as far as the mills and Saravali and beyond toward the ascent of Siderokastron. 43.6 Amaris, therefore, seeing their pursuit to be untimely and fruitless and disordered, having left men in certain places, then turned back against them, routed and pursued them and having caught up, killed the provveditore who was sitting on a mule and had twice fallen from it. And they killed many others and having captured Raoul Michael himself, his horse having fallen with him, they sat him on the stake. And finally, running to the shore as victors, where the galleys were, finding many on the land, they killed them. 43.7 And suspecting that the metropolitan of the same Old Patras was also responsible for the fleet's coming against them, they took him and sat him on the stake. 43.8 Having suffered these things, those of the fleet returned unsuccessful and having suffered loss. From which evil that occurred the captain also, being grieved and having become very sick while he was at Euripus, died and Jacopo Loredan became captain, the son of that Pietro Loredan and first cousin of the captain before him, Alvise Loredan. 43.9 But these things followed in the winter of the present time; but the event of Patras in August before the autumn.

44.1 On the 29th of the month of March of the year '75, on which our great Pascha also occurred, Matthew Asan, the cause of all the evils of the Morea, died; and behold also the song of David and moreover has been fulfilled the 'Let arise the'

ἀποθανὼν εὐφραι νόμενος ἐν οὐρανοῖς, ἡμᾶς δὲ καταλέλοιπε καὶ τὴν ἐκείνου λυπομένους στέρησιν.

43.1 Κἀγὼ δ' ἀναγκασθεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς ἐνδείας Ἀπριλλίῳ ιη-ῃ ἐξῆλθον καὶ ἀπῆλθον εἰς τὸν Ἀγκῶνα τῇ ιζ-ῃ Μαΐου. Καὶ τῇ α-ῃ πάλιν Ἰουνίου ἐξελθόντος μου, ἀπῆλθον διὰ τῆς ὁδοῦ Βιτέλμου, ἐπεὶ κἀκεῖσε εἰς τὰ θέρμα εὑρίσκεσθαι τὸν καρδηνάλιν μεμαθήκαμεν. ∆ι' ἡμέρας θʹ εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην ἐφθάσαμεν καὶ ποιήσας εἰς τὸ ὁσπίτιον τῶν αὐθεντῶν ἡ μῶν, τοῦ δεσπότου κυροῦ Ἀνδρέου καὶ αὐθεντοπούλου κυροῦ Μανουὴλ τῶν Παλαιολόγων ἡμέρας λʹ, ἐν αἷς ἡμέραις καὶ τοὺς τάφους τῶν μα καρίων ἀποστόλων Πέτρου καὶ Παύλου προσεκύνησα καὶ πολλῶν ἄλλων ἁγίων ἐκεῖσε τεθαμμένων. 43.2 Καὶ ἱστορήσας τὰ ἐν τῇ πόλει τῇ μεγάλῃ καὶ περιβοήτῳ καὶ παλαιᾶ, τῇ ι-ῃ Ἰουλίου ἐξῆλθον καὶ ἦλθον διὰ τῆς εὐθείας ὁδοῦ εἰς τὸν Ἀγκῶνα καὶ μικρόν τι προσμείνας διὰ θαλάσσης εἰς τὴν Βενετίαν ἀπῆλθον τῇ κη-ῃ τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἐποίησα ἐκεῖσε εἰς τὸ μοναστήριον τοῦ Σταυροῦ ἡμέρας κʹ, ἕως Αὐγούστου δηλονότι κγʹ, ἐν ᾗ ἀργὰ σὺν θεῷ ἐξελθόντες ἀπεσώθημεν ἐνταῦθα εἰς τοὺς Κορφοὺς τῇ ε-ῃ τοῦ Σεπτεβρίου μηνὸς τοῦ οε-ου ἔτους. 43.3 Καθ' ὃν δὴ καιρὸν ἡμεῖς εἰς τὰ περὶ τὴν Ῥώμην καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν Ῥώμην διετρίβομεν, καὶ ὁ τῶν ἀσεβῶν ἐξάρχων ἀμηρᾶς ἐλθὼν κατὰ τῆς Ἀλβανιτίας καὶ διώξας τὸν αὐθέντην αὐτῆς τὸν Σκαντάρην καὶ αἰχμαλω τεύσας καὶ ἀφανίσας τὸν τόπον καὶ κτίσας κάστρον πλησίον τοῦ καθο λικοῦ κάστρου αὐτῆς Κρούας ὀνομαζομένου, πρὸς τὸ ἀντιμάχεσθαι αὐ τῷ, ἐπανέστρεψεν εἰς τὰ περὶ τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν. 43.4 Καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ οδ-ου ἔτους τὸ θέρος γεγονὼς Βίκτωρ Καπέλλος καπετάνιος τζενεράλης ἀπελθὼν εἰς τὴν νῆσον Ἴμβρον καὶ πολεμήσας, ἀπῆρεν αὐτήν. Καὶ πάλιν ἀπελθόντος αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν Ἀθῆναν, πᾶσαν τὴν χώραν ᾑχμαλώτευσεν· ἐλθόντος δ' αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν Παλαιὰν Πάτραν περὶ τὸν Αὔγουστον ἀπῆρε τὴν χώραν. 43.5 Ἐπιδραμόντος οὖν τοῦ Ἀμάρη εἰς τὴν βοήθειαν αὐτῆς, ὁ προ-βεδοῦρος μετὰ τῶν τῆς ἁρμάτας καὶ Ῥαοὺλ Μιχαὴλ ὁ Ἴσης μετὰ τῶν στρατιωτῶν πολλῶν καὶ καλῶν ἔτρεψαν αὐτὸν κατὰ κράτος καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν αὐτοῦ ἐσκότωσαν· καὶ διώξαντες μέχρι πολλοῦ, οὐκ ἐστράφησαν περὶ τὸ προκείμενον τοῦ ἔργου, καὶ μᾶλλον τοῦτο συμβουλεύοντες οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι οἱ καὶ τοῦ τόπου καὶ τῶν τοιούτων πλέον εἰδήμονες. Ἀλλ' ἐπαρθεὶς ὁ προβεδοῦρος καὶ σκληρὸς μᾶλλον φανεὶς καὶ πρὸς αὐτούς, πῶς οὐ διώ κουσιν, ἐξεδίωξαν καὶ μὴ γινώσκοντες τοῦτο καλὸν μέχρι καὶ τῶν μυ λῶν καὶ τοῦ Σαραβαλλίου καὶ ἐπέκεινα πρὸς τὸ ἀνώφορον τοῦ Σιδηρο κάστρου. 43.6 Ὁ γοῦν Ἀμάρης ἰδὼν τὸν τούτων διωγμὸν ἄκαιρον καὶ ἄπρακτον καὶ ἄτακτον, καταλείψας εἴς τινας τόπους ἀνθρώπους, εἶτ' ἐπιστρέψας κατ' αὐτῶν, ἔτρεψε καὶ ἐδίωξεν αὐτοὺς καὶ φθᾶσας ἀνεῖλε τὸν προβε δοῦρον ἐπὶ μουλαρίου καθεζόμενον καὶ δὶς ἀπ' ἐκείνου πεσόντα. Καὶ ἄλλους ἀνεῖλον πολλοὺς καὶ αὐτὸν δὴ τὸν Ῥαοὺλ Μιχαὴλ ἁλώσαντες, τοῦ ἀλόγου αὐτῷ συμπεσόντος, ἐκάθισαν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν πάλον. Καὶ τέ λος ὡς νικηταὶ δραμόντες εἰς τὸν αἰγιαλόν, ἔνθα τὰ κάτεργα, πολλοὺς εὑρόντες εἰς τὴν γῆν, ἀνεῖλον αὐτούς. 43.7 Ὑποπτεύσαντες δὲ εἶναι αἴτιον καὶ τὸν μητροπολίτην τῆς αὐτῆς Παλαιᾶς Πάτρας τοῦ ἐλθεῖν κατ' αὐτῶν τὸ ἁρμάτωμα, λαβόντες εἰς τὸν πάλον ἐκάθισαν. 43.8 Ταῦτα δὲ παθόντες ἄπρακτοι καὶ ζημιωμένοι οἱ τῆς ἁρμάτας ἐπα νέστρεψαν. Ἀφ' οὗ δὴ συμβεβηκότος κακοῦ καὶ ὁ καπετάνιος λυπηθεὶς καὶ πολὺ ἀσθενήσας εἰς τὸν Εὔριπον εὑρισκόμενος ἀπέθανε καὶ γέγονε καπετάνιος Ἰάκωβος Λορδᾶς, ὁ τοῦ Πέτρου Λορδᾶ ἐκείνου υἱὸς καὶ τοῦ πρὸ αὐτοῦ Ἀλωΐζου Λορδᾶ καπετανίου πρωτεξάδελφος. 43.9 Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν τῷ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος χρόνου χειμῶνι παρηκολού θησαν· τὸ δὲ τῆς Πάτρας τῷ πρὸ τοῦ φθινοπώρου Αὐγούστῳ.

44.1 Τῇ κθ-ῃ τοῦ Μαρτίου μηνὸς τοῦ οε-ου ἔτους ἐν ᾗ καὶ τὸ ἡμέτερον μέγα πάσχα γέγονεν, ἐναπέψυξεν ὁ τῶν κακῶν πάντων τοῦ Μορέως αἴτιος Ματθαῖος ὁ Ἀσάνης· καὶ ἰδοὺ καὶ τὸ τοῦ ∆αβὶδ μελῴ-δημα καὶ ἔτι πεπλήρωται τὸ ἀναστήτω ὁ