ABSTRACT
N ow I shall cease to speak to you of them who are returning and have had plenty of toil and trouble, and must turn to speak to you of ourselves, who remained at Gallipoli and have not had any less trouble than they. When the Company had departed from Gallipoli to march against the Alans the Emperor heard of it. And it happened that, at that time, eighteen Genoese galleys, of which Sir Antonio Spinola was commander, had come from Genoa to Constantinople, to take the youngest son of the Emperor to Lombardy to be made Marquis of Monferrat.1 The said Sir Antonio Spinola told the Emperor that, if he would let his son, the Marquis, have to wife the daughter of micer Apicino Spinola, he would wage war for him against the Franks of Romania. And the Emperor said he was content.
