LXXXI [f. 61v; Sathas VI, 202]

minio˙tr˙I NEP Editors’ Preference 2.24—TEX–16:58 - 3/28/2008
DISPACCI 277
LXXXVI (25 October 1482)
Most Serene Prince:
As I have written to Your Excellency elsewhere, so by this again I repeat and inform
you that these soldati, assigned to guard this place, find themselves in extreme necessity,
because it is about a year since they have had any payment, of money or of grain. They are
much decreased, and are being dissipated every day, so that the 300 pays that have been
assigned to guard the city, are now reduced to 170 pays in poor condition. I assure Your
Lordship that if you do not provide for their living in this regard and quickly, these
few will depart from here, and this terra will remain without a guard of soldati. As is
my duty, I respectfully remind Your Lordship of what seems necessary to me for the
security of this terra, and you will most wisely dispose and take action as it pleases you.
. In addition, in several of my letters I have written to Your Sublimity about the
inestimable damage that has been committed, and is committed daily, by the Turkish fuste
that are continually feeding in these parts, and have taken a great number of men from
here and from the island of Aegina. During the last few days they have taken three barche,
two from Aegina and one from this terra, with all the men, so that these places can be said
to be besieged, not to mention the other territories of Your Lordship and the whole
Archipelago. I inform Your Excellency that since the peace was made here, there has
been more damage than was done during the period of the past war. I hope that His
Lordship the Provveditor of the Fleet, who is expected shortly in these parts, will make
some provision, and will be willing to leave a galley here, otherwise these places will
be ruined, because your poor subjects have no other way of making a living except by sea,
and they are forced to go to sea for their living, and do not look for any danger.
about the soldati
about the attacks by
the Turkish fuste