← Table of contents
The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks

Note 452 — Chapter XVI

Reading edition

See also ch. xxvii. of Montaldo, who adds that the head was sent to the pasha of Babylon accompanied by forty youths and forty virgins, a procession intended to make known the sultan’s great victory.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings