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8th of June, in 1476, he died of a severe malady,as his monument testifies still in St. John’sChurch at Rhodes; which the barbariansspared, and its inscription was legible to travellersa few years ago, as a lamentable but not singularproof of the wretched taste of the times. 1

1 Seb. Paoli : Serie, ii. 470.