11/24 Paris.] [Footnote 57: The Greeks, ashamed of any foreign aid, disguise the alliance and succor of the Genoese: but the fact is proved by the testimony of J Villani (Chron.l.vi.c.71, in Muratori, Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom.xiii.p.202, 203) and William de Nangis, (Annales de St.Louis, p. 248 in the Louvre Joinville,) two impartial foreigners; and Urban IV threatened to deprive Genoa of her archbishop.] Intent on his great object, the emperor Michael visited in person and strengthened the troops and fortifications of Thrace. |