Lo Assedio di Malta, 18 Maggio-8, Settembre, 1565.  Conte
  Carlo, Sanminiatelli, Zabarella, Colonello.

LIST OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, SULTANS OF TURKEY, POPES OF
ROME, AND GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA, BETWEEN THE DATES 1492-1580, THE PERIOD
COVERED IN THIS BOOK.

ENGLAND

Henry VII., 1485-1509. 
Henry VIII., 1509-47. 
Edward VI., 1547-53. 
Mary, 1553-58. 
Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

FRANCE

Charles VIII., 1483-98. 
Louis XII., 1498-1515. 
Francis I., 1515-47. 
Henry II., 1547-59. 
Francis II., 1559-60. 
Charles IX., 1560-74. 
Henry III., 1574-89.

SPAIN

Granada, taken by Ferdinand and Isabella, the sovereigns of Aragon and Castile ("Los Reyes Catolicos”) in 1492.  Their daughter, Joanna, married Philip, son of the Emperor Maximilian of Germany.  Ferdinand died 1516, and was succeeded by Charles V., son of Philip and Joanna, as King of Spain, in 1517.  On the death of his grandfather Maximilian, in 1519, Charles was elected Emperor of Germany.  He resigned all his dignities and retired to the monastery of Yuste in 1555, and was succeeded by his son, Philip II.  Charles died 1558.  Philip II., who married as his first wife Mary Tudor, of England, reigned from 1555 till 1598.

SULTANS OF TURKEY

Bajazet II., 1481-1512; Selim the Cruel, 1512-20; Soliman the Magnificent, 1520-66; Selim II., known to the Spaniards as “el bebedor” (the drunkard), 1566-74; Murad III., 1574-95.

POPES OF ROME

Pius III., 1503; Julius II., 1503; Leo X., 1513; Hadrian VI., 1522; Clement VII., 1523; Paul III., 1534; Julius III., 1550; Marcellus II., 1555; Paul IV., 1555; Pius IV., 1559; Pius V., 1566; Gregory XIII., 1572; Sixtus V., 1585.

GRAND MASTERS OF THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA

Pierre d’Aubusson, 1476-1503; Emeri d’Amboise, 1503-13; Fabrice Carette, 1513-21; Villiers de L’Isle Adam, 1521-36; Juan d’Omedes, 1536-53; Claude de la Sangle, 1553-57; Jean Parisot de la Valette, 1557-68; Pierre Dumont, 1568-72; Jean Levesque de la Cassiere, 1572-82.

DISTANCES IN SEA MILES ON THE COAST OF NORTHERN AFRICA

Gibraltar to Oran 225’
Oran to Tenes 110’
Tenes to Shershell 41’
Shershell to Algiers 40’
Algiers to Bona 104’
Bona to Jigelli 30’
Jigelli to Bizerta 205’
Bizerta to Tunis