[Footnote 50: The Catalan war is most copiously related by
Pachymer, in the xith, xiith, and xiiith books, till he
breaks off in the year 1308. Nicephorus Gregoras (l. vii. 3
- 6) is more concise and complete. Ducange, who adopts
these adventurers as French, has hunted their footsteps with
his usual diligence, (Hist. de C. P. l. vi. c. 22 - 46.) He
quotes an Arragonese history, which I have read with
pleasure, and which the Spaniards extol as a model of style
and composition, (Expedicion de los Catalanes y Arragoneses
contra Turcos y Griegos: Barcelona, 1623 in quarto: Madrid,
1777, in octavo.) Don Francisco de Moncada Conde de Ossona,
may imitate Caesar or Sallust; he may transcribe the Greek
or Italian contemporaries: but he never quotes his
authorities, and I cannot discern any national records of
the exploits of his countrymen.]