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This brief account of Cervantes' captivity is abridged from my friend Mr. H. E. Watts's admirable Life, prefixed to his translation of Don Quixote. Don Quixote, I., chap. xl. H. E. Watts, Life of Cervantes, prefixed to his translation of Don Quixote, i. 96. Histoire de Barbarie et de ses Corsaires, par le R. P. Fr.
Les Corsaires Barbaresques, 266. When Sultan Suleymān reflected on the magnanimity which he had displayed towards the Knights of Rhodes in allowing them to depart in peace in 1522, his feelings must have resembled those of Doria when he thought of that inconsiderate release of Dragut in 1543.
So says Jean Chesneau, French secretary at Constantinople in 1543. See Jurien de la Gravière, Les Corsaires Barbaresques, 13. The dwellers on the coasts of Italy soon discovered the new spirit in the Turkish fleet; they had now to dread Corsairs on both hands, east as well as west.
On November 25, 1560, he gave up the ghost: he was a great seaman, but still more a passionate lover of his country; despotic in his love, but not the less a noble Genoese patriot. Brantôme, Hommes illustres étrangers. Œuvres, i. 279. Froissart's Chron., transl. T. Johnes ii. 446, 465, ff. See the Story of Turkey, 170. See Jurien de la Gravière, Les Corsaires Barbaresques, 193-215.
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