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Updated: May 24, 2025
His malignant eyes rested fondly on this order for the surrender of the famous stronghold of Cerines to a nephew of General Saplana, the treacherous Commander of Famagosta; with two such fortresses they should command the coast, and their empire in Cyprus was assured.
For the Cyprian forces were few and were chiefly intrenched in the fortress of Famagosta the most formidable of all the strongholds of Cyprus leaving no trained men at arms in the city itself, which thus lay unprotected, close under the vigilance of the now hostile Citadel, whose commander, Saplana, had been a favorite of the King but was now among the traitors.
I have not such a tale of knighthood to tell thee: yet, if thou carest for my tidings they would make a canto for the new Kypria of the Dama Margherita, in contrast to thine. And first of the traitor Saplana of whom there is news." Elois
These Venetian nobles would have made short work in meting out justice to those chiefs who had been the instigators of the conspiracy, but as yet they had eluded the search; though it was rumored that Saplana, the Turkish commander of the Fortress of Famagosta, with his nephew Almerico to whom the conspirators would assign control of the castle of Cerines, had been in hiding in the palace of the Archbishop.
Commander Saplana moved calmly out among his mounted suite, fully equipped, from the Castle into the Piazza; yet there had not been many moments in which to make ready since the first notes of that wild alarum had sounded! Those among the citizens entitled to bear arms were quickly accoutred and dashed out to mingle with the throng. "What is it?" men questioned of each other but no one knew.
His Grace, the Archbishop, was among the first to respond to the summons of the alarum, having his mind filled with weighty matters of life and death which had rendered him sleepless some of which he had discussed confidentially with General Saplana, who had been one of those most distinguished and trusted by the late King.
Shall it be of that famous Saplana who runneth away to put himself in hiding; for fear verily for fear the Commander of Famagosta! afraid to die like a man! A comedy! one might laugh if it were less craven." "One knoweth not if he be in hiding, since he is not found; he may be a traitor, yet not a coward too." "Yes, one knoweth, bella Contarini mia: did I not promise thee news?
With Saplana the Commander of Famagosta, and with his own brother Gioan Peres Fabrici, as with some other members of the Queen's Council, many details of the conspiracy which was now being brought to so satisfactory a conclusion, had been arranged. They knew that the Neapolitan galley would be in port that night to support the uprising and the proclamation that should be made, if fortune favored.
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