ABSTRACT
T h e n God gave them fine weather and in a few days they landed at Monemvasia and there they found those who showed them great honour, and they were given great refreshment of all things. And they found there an order of the Emperor to go straight to Constantinople, and so they did. They left Monemvasia and went to Constantinople. And when they were at Constantinople, the Emperors, the father and the son, and all the people of the Empire, received them with great joy and great pleasure. But, if these were pleased at their arrival, the Genoese were sorry. They saw well that if these people remained there, they themselves would lose the honour and power they had in the Empire ; that the Emperor had dared do nothing but what they wished, but that, henceforth, he would despise them. What shall I tell you ? The wedding was celebrated, the Grand Duke took to wife the niece of the Emperor, who was one of the beautiful and learned damsels of the world and was about sixteen ; and the wedding was celebrated
with great joy and content and every man received pay for four months.
