The Book of the Concord of the Koran or Law of Muhammad and the Evangelists

citizen, which, as it is difficult to maintain in this perplexity of mortality, so no one should doubt that whoever has been able to achieve this in all things must be held among the greatest of men. But to speak a little more clearly about your situation and character: you have never had a civil cause recommended to you without placing, in the first place, the consideration of true religion and piety (which is a part that many are accustomed to neglect). Christ will surely have thanks for you, for you have judged that His cause should not be neglected even among His enemies, and you have preferred that the favor of men perish for you rather than to hear blasphemies against Him with a calm mind. Furthermore, because we have often spoken about those calamities whose context I explain here, you seemed to me the most suitable person to whom this treatise should be addressed. You will accept it for that reason, and also because I have never ceased desiring to prove myself strongly to you, from the time I knew you even by reputation. You can have the most ample proof of this matter in the fact that, while I was living in Turchia Turkey, I was the author of the liberation of your nephew, Antonio Dodeo, from the hands of pirates. At that time, you were serving as ambassador to the Emperor, leading an expedition in Africa against Hairadinũ ænorbarbum Khair ad-Din Barbarossa, and conquering the Tunicios Tunisians. For when I was in Asia minori Asia Minor for the sake of a more comfortable climate and had received word that he had been brought to Callipolim Gallipoli, I was transported by that Venetian ship and sent a man with my letters to the ambassador Forestanus, to whom you had written about that matter, with the result that he was not only free, but received his freedom gratuitously. This small gift will confirm my spirit toward you and will signify that I am a person eager to deserve well of you. Which