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Updated: May 11, 2025
I have caused to be communicated to the Government of the King of Italy the thanks of this Government for the eminent services rendered by Count Corti as the third commissioner on this commission. With dignity, learning, and impartiality he discharged duties requiring great labor and constant patience, to the satisfaction, I believe, of both Governments.
He made himself known at Berlin by his services as ambassador to the King of Sardinia. There was nothing interesting in the opera at Casal, so I went to Pavia, where, though utterly unknown, I was immediately welcomed by the Marchioness Corti, who received all strangers of any importance.
The heralds halted now and then to execute a flourish. Constantine, recognizing an envoy, sent Justiniani and Count Corti to meet him beyond the moat, and they returned with the Sultan's formal demand for the surrender of the city. The message was threatening and imperious. The Emperor replied offering to pay tribute. Mahommed rejected the proposal, and announced an assault.
Mirza is no more. Farewell Mirza." Corti was deeply moved. Prostrating himself, he arose, and replied: "I go hence more my Lord's lover than ever. Death to the stranger who in my presence takes his name in vain." As he was retiring, Mahommed spoke again: "A word, Count.... In what we are going to, the comfort and safety of the Princess Irene may require you to communicate with me.
"Christ and our Lady of Blacherne!" and with that Corti was in their midst; and after him, into the lane he opened, his Berbers drove pell-mell, knocking Turks from their saddles, and overthrowing horses and there was cutting and thrusting, and wounds given, and souls rendered up through darkened eyes.
"The undersigned is a Christian Noble of Italy, more particularly from his strong Castle Corti on the eastern coast of Italy, near the ancient city of Brindisi. With the august city of Byzantium he has been acquainted many years through report, and, if its fame be truly published, he desires to reside in it, possibly to the end of his days.
"Be the true knight thou art, Count Corti, and come to me as before." He rode away with a revelation; that in womanly purity and goodness there is a power and inspiration beyond the claims of beauty. The firing continued. Seven times that day the Turks assailed the Gate St.
You have ready wit for such emergencies. Leave me a suggestion." Corti reflected an instant. "The signal must proceed from me," he said. "My Lord will pitch his tent in sight" "By Solomon, and this his sword, yes! Every Gabour who dares look over the wall shall see it while there is a hill abiding." The Count bowed.
In this wide plain there are many churches, some of them of a great antiquity, as S. Jacopo at Zambra and S. Lorenzo alle Corti, and in the hills you may find a place so wonderful as the Certosa di Calci, a monastery founded in 1366, but altered and spoiled in the seventeenth century, and the marvellous Church of S. Giovanni there.
Count Corti was with his guard at the foot of the tower when the first discharge of artillery took place. He heard the loud reports and the blows of the shot which failed not their aim; he heard also the sound of the bullets flying on into the city, and being of a quick imagination, shuddered to think of the havoc they might inflict should they fall in a thickly inhabited district.
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