[348] The letter, which is dated Brussels, Nov. 17, 1571, is addressed to Juan de Zuñiga, the Castilian ambassador at the court of Rome. A copy from a manuscript of the sixteenth century, in the library of the duke of Ossuna, is inserted in the Documentos Inéditos, tom. iii. pp. 292-303. [349] "Ya havreis entendido la órden que se os ha dado de que inverneís en Meçina, y las causas dello."--Carta del Rey á su hermano, ap. Rosell, Historia del Combate Naval, Apénd. No. 15. [350] See Rosell, Historia del Combate Naval, p. 157; Lafuente, Historia de España (Madrid, 1850), tom. xiii. p. 538. Ranke, who has made the history of the Ottoman empire his particular study, remarks: "The Turks lost all their old confidence after the battle of Lepanto. They had no equal to oppose to John of Austria. The day of Lepanto broke down the Ottoman supremacy."--Ottoman and Spanish Empires (Eng. tr.), p. 23. [351] "Su Santidad ha de querer que de gane Constantinopla y la Casa Santa, y que tendrá muchos que le querrán adular con facilitárselo, y que no faltarán entre estos algunos quo hacen profesion de soldados y que como su Beatitud no pueden entender estas cosas."--Carta del Duque de Alba, ap. Documentos Inédites, tom. iii. p. 300. [352] Ranke, History of the Popes (Eng. tr.), vol i. p. 384. [353] Lafuente, Historia de España, tom. xiii. p. 530. [354] "Breves de fuego."--Ibid, p. 529. [355] "E si è veduto, che quando gli fu data la gran rotta, in sei mesi rifabbricò canto venti galere, oltre quelle che si trovavano in essere, cosa che essendo preveduta e scritta da me, fu giudicata piuttosto impossibile che creduta."--Relazione di Marcantino Barbaro 1573, Alberi, Relazioni Venete, tom. iii, p. 306. [356] For the preceding pages see Torres y Aguilera, Chronica, fol. 87-89; Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, lib. x. cap. 5; Vanderhammen, Don Juan de Austria, fol. 159 et seq.; Paruta, Guerra di Cipro, p. 206 et seq.; Sagredo, Monarcas Othomanos, pp. 301, 302. [357] It is Voltaire's reflection: "Il semblait que les Turques eussent gagné la bataille de Lépante."--Essais sur les Moeurs, chap. 160. [358] The treaty is to be found in Dumont, Corps Diplomatique, tom. v. par. 1 pp. 218, 219. [359] Rosell, Historia del Combate Naval, p. 149.--Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, p. 747.--Torres y Aguilera, Chronica, fol. 95. [360] Vanderhammen, Don Juan de Austria, fol. 172. [361] Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, p. 765.--Vanderhammen, Don Juan de Austria, fol. 174, 175--Torres y Aguilera, Chronica, fol. 103 et seq.--The author last cited who was present at the capture of Tunis, gives a fearful picture of the rapacity of the soldiers.