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The city is attached day and night from gigantic rams,

the walls and towers are struck by enormous boulders.

From the sea they come deriving ships from Costantinopolis,

but they are defeated by the Saracen fleet.

Siracusa is besieged from eight months

it is prey to the hunger and the illnesses,

the city is by now in knee but it continued to withstand heroically,

Last soul of the moslem resistance.

The Saracens gathered against the tower of the Porto Grande,

by now weakened by the repeated attacks.

For twenty days and twenty nights the soldiers of Islam

they were attacked furiously in impetuous assaults

Dawn of May 21, the war cars Arabs attack

the tower of the Porto Grande opening a breach of it.

A rain of stones falls on houses and streets,

while the Saracens overwhelm the few soldiers

what by now they defended the city sowing death and destruction.

A last nucleus of Byzantine soldiers

it tried to do front the enemy but they were done asunder,

Siracusa, last soul of the Moslem resistance

…it’s conquered!