_Ma li pensavam grande error Che in fuga se fussem tuti metui Che de si lonzi eram vegnui Per cerchali a casa lor._ [19] “Note here that the Genoese generally, commonly, and by nature, are the most covetous of Men, and the Love of Gain spurs them to every Crime. Yet are they deemed also the most valiant Men in the World. Such an one was Lampa, of that very Doria family, a man of an high Courage truly. For when he was engaged in a Sea-Fight against the Venetians, and was standing on the Poop of his Galley, his Son, fighting valiantly at the Forecastle, was shot by an Arrow in the Breast, and fell wounded to the Death; a Mishap whereat his Comrades were sorely shaken, and Fear came upon the whole Ship’s Company. But Lampa, hot with the Spirit of Battle, and more mindful of his Country’s Service and his own Glory than of his Son, ran forward to the spot, loftily rebuked the agitated Crowd, and ordered his Son’s Body to be cast into the Deep, telling them for their Comfort that the Land could never have afforded his Boy a nobler Tomb. And then, renewing the Fight more fiercely than ever, he achieved the Victory.” (_Benvenuto of Imola_, in _Comment. on Dante, in Muratori, Antiq._ i. 1146.) (“Yet like an English General will I die, And all the Ocean make my spacious Grave; Women and Cowards on the Land may lie, The Sea’s the Tomb that’s proper for the Brave!” —_Annus Mirabilis_.) [20] The particulars of the battle are gathered from _Ferretus Vicentinus_, in _Murat._ ix. 985 _seqq._; _And. Dandulo_, in xii. 407–408; _Navagiero_, in xxiii. 1009–1010; and the Genoese Poem as before. [21] _Navagiero_, u.s. Dandulo says, “after a few days he died of grief”; Ferretus, that he was killed in the action and buried at Curzola. [22] For the funeral, a MS. of Cibo Recco quoted by _Jacopo Doria_ in _La Chiesa di San Matteo descritta_, etc., Genova, 1860, p. 26. For the date of arrival the poem so often quoted:— “_De Oitover_, a zoia, _a seze di_ Lo nostro ostel, con gran festa En nostro porto, a or di sesta Domine De restitui.” [23] S. Matteo was built by Martin Doria in 1125, but pulled down and rebuilt by the family in a slightly different position in 1278. On this occasion is recorded a remarkable anticipation of the feats of American engineering: “As there was an ancient and very fine picture of Christ upon the apse of the Church, it was thought a great pity that so fine a work should be destroyed. And so they contrived an ingenious method by which the apse bodily was transported without injury, picture and all, for a distance of 25 ells, and firmly set upon the foundations where it now exists.” (_Jacopo de Varagine_ in _Muratori_, vol. ix. 36.)