Note 191 — Chapter V · Ibrahim’s Fall

Postel however, in his volume published in 1569, De la république des Turcs, claims that Ibrahim did not favor Christians but was a despot over them, accusing him of taking large amount of Venetian and other Christian property. “It is true” he acknowledges “that to deliver one or another Christian from prison or calumny, he saved him when the Christian could pay well,” p. 61.