ABSTRACT
They handled florins as men handle small change. And again, they also went to the dockyard of San Salvador where there were, on the stocks, more than a hundred and fifty galleys and terides, which King Charles was having made for the passage to Romania, as I have told you before; and they set them all on fire. And the fire was so great that it seemed that all the world was burning ; whereat King Charles was very grieved, for he saw it all from Catona, where he was. What shall I tell you ? The messengers went to the King of Aragon and Sicily and found him with all his host, thirty miles distant from Messina, and told him all the event, as it had happened. And he was greatly displeased, for he wished above all things to fight with King Charles and for that satisfaction he was coming, he and his followers. But, nevertheless, he thought that all was for the best and that all was the work of God. God knew what was best.
