[Footnote 1: For the character of Mahomet II. it is
dangerous to trust either the Turks or the Christians. The
most moderate picture appears to be drawn by Phranza, (l. i.
c. 33,) whose resentment had cooled in age and solitude; see
likewise Spondanus, (A.D. 1451, No. 11,) and the continuator
of Fleury, (tom. xxii. p. 552,) the Elogia of Paulus Jovius,
(l. iii. p. 164- 166,) and the Dictionnaire de Bayle, (tom.
iii. p. 273 - 279.)]