("Yet like an English General will I die,
And all the Ocean make my spacious Grave;
Women and Cowards on the Land may lie,
The Sea’s the Tomb that’s proper for the Brave!”
—­Annus Mirabilis.)

[20] The particulars of the battle are gathered from Ferretus
    Vicentinus, in Murat. ix. 985 seqq.; And.  Dandulo, in xii.
    407-408; Navagiero, in xxiii. 1009-1010; and the Genoese Poem as
    before.

[21] Navagiero, u.s.  Dandulo says, “after a few days he died of grief”;
    Ferretus, that he was killed in the action and buried at Curzola.

[22] For the funeral, a MS. of Cibo Recco quoted by Jacopo Doria in La
    Chiesa di San Matteo descritta, etc., Genova, 1860, p. 26.  For the
    date of arrival the poem so often quoted:—­

      “De Oitover, a zoia, a seze di
        Lo nostro ostel, con gran festa
        En nostro porto, a or di sesta
      Domine De restitui.”

[23] S. Matteo was built by Martin Doria in 1125, but pulled down and
    rebuilt by the family in a slightly different position in 1278.  On
    this occasion is recorded a remarkable anticipation of the feats of
    American engineering:  “As there was an ancient and very fine picture
    of Christ upon the apse of the Church, it was thought a great pity
    that so fine a work should be destroyed.  And so they contrived an
    ingenious method by which the apse bodily was transported without
    injury, picture and all, for a distance of 25 ells, and firmly set
    upon the foundations where it now exists.” (Jacopo de Varagine in
    Muratori, vol. ix. 36.)

The inscription on S. Matteo regarding the battle is as follows:—­“Ad Honorem Dei et Beate Virginis Marie Anno MCCLXXXXVIII Die Dominico VII Septembris iste Angelus captus fuit in Gulfo Venetiarum in Civitate Scursole et ibidem fuit prelium Galearum LXXVI Januensium cum Galeis LXXXXVI Veneciarum.  Capte fuerunt LXXXIIII per Nobilem Virum Dominum Lambam Aurie Capitaneum et Armiratum tunc Comunis et Populi Janue cum omnibus existentibus in eisdem, de quibus conduxit Janue homines vivos carceratos VII cccc et Galeas XVIII, reliquas LXVI fecit cumburi in dicto Gulfo Veneciarum.  Qui obiit Sagone I. MCCCXXIII.” It is not clear to what the Angelus refers.

[24] Rampoldi, Ann.  Musulm. ix. 217.

[25] Jacopo Doria, p. 280.

[26] Murat. xxiii. 1010.  I learn from a Genoese gentleman, through my
    friend Professor Henry Giglioli (to whose kindness I owe the
    transcript of the inscription just given), that a faint tradition
    exists as to the place of our traveller’s imprisonment.  It is alleged
    to have been a massive building, standing between the Grazie and the
    Mole, and bearing the name