156, 157, in Muratori's Collection, tom.
xiv.] [Footnote 531: Cantacuzene praises their bravery, but imputes their losses to their ignorance of the seas: they suffered more by the breakers than by the enemy, vol.iii.p.

224 .-- M.] [Footnote 532: Cantacuzene says that the Genoese lost twenty-eight ships with their crews, autandroi; the Venetians and Catalans sixteen, the Imperials, none Cantacuzene accuses Pisani of cowardice, in not following up the victory, and destroying the Genoese.

But Pisani's conduct, and indeed Cantacuzene's account of the battle, betray the superiority of the Genoese .-- M.] [Footnote 54: The Abbe de Sade (Memoires sur la Vie de Petrarque, tom.
iii.p.

257--263) translates this letter, which he copied from a MS.
in the king of France's library.

Though a servant of the duke of Milan, Petrarch pours forth his astonishment and grief at the defeat and despair of the Genoese in the following year, (p.