The raids of Tunisian and Algerian Corsairs were more seriously mischievous; since the whole sea-board from Nice to Reggio lay open to the ravages of such incarnate fiends as Barbarossa and Dragut, while the Adriatic was infested by Uscocchi, and the natives of the Regno not unfrequently turned pirates in emulation of their persecutors.[232] [Footnote 231: See Mutinelli, _Storia Arcana_, vol.ii.p.

167, for the pillage of Lucera by Pacchiarotto.] [Footnote 232: Sarpi's _History of the Uscocchi_ may be consulted for this singular episode in the Iliad of human savagery.

See Mutinelli, _op.

cit._ vol.ii.p.

182, on the case of the son and heir of the Duke of Termoli joining them; and _ibid._ p.