[Footnote 44: Spondanus, from the best evidence, and the
most rational criticism, has reduced the giant Scanderbeg to
the human size, (A.D. 1461, No. 20, 1463, No. 9, 1465, No.
12, 13, 1467, No. 1.) His own letter to the pope, and the
testimony of Phranza, (l. iii. c. 28,) a refugee in the
neighboring isle of Corfu, demonstrate his last distress,
which is awkwardly concealed by Marinus Barletius, (l. x.)]