CONTENTS

Note as to Dates ,               .               .               .         v

Preface                      .               .               .               .         vii

Introduction          .               .               •               •         i

Prologue  .             .               .               •               .19

CHAPTER ONE
Departure from San Lucar—The Count ofNiebla—The attack on
Gibraltar—Gibraltar—Return to San Lucar—Cadix.—The
Barbary CoaSl — Ceuta — Malaga — Cartagena — The
Balearic Isles—Gulf of Lyons—A great Storm—The Riviera
—Genoa       .....              21-26

CHAPTER TWO
Genoa—Litigation with certain merchants—San Lorenzo—
Genoese possessions abroad—The inhabitants—A rising—
SeSlri Levante — Portovenere — Spezia — Lerici — Pietra-
santa — Leghorn—The vessel taken by the Count of
Modica—Niccolo Piccinino—Pisa—Florence—PiBoia—
Bologna—Pope Eugenius—Ferrara—Bills of Exchange—
Venice          .....               27-33

CHAPTER THREE
Ror/lt—Pope Gregory and the Faithful—The walls—The Tiber
—CaSlle of St. Angelo—The Vatican—Old St. Peter's—
St. John Lateran—Right ofSanduary—SanSa Sandorum—
Statue of Marcus Aurelius—The Colosseum—Imperial
buildings on the Palatine—S. Maria Nuova—S. Croce in
Gerusalemme—S. SilveHro in Capite—S. Maria Rotonda—