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.
