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Conquistata Otranto i Turchi iniziarono a seminare terrore e morte.

The Italian Christian world was aghast.

Ferdinand I King of Naples, turned to the Pope

Exposing the danger looming over the lands of the Church

If the Turks had invaded the Kingdom of Naples.

The fall and the martyrdom of Otranto

Aroused great emotion among Christians and fears

Of a possible invasion of the Vatican woke up Sixtus IV.

The Pope decreed a truce among the various Italian States

And proclaimed an anti-Muslin crusade,

Inviting all Christian Princes to join against

A unique and formidable enemy.

Otranto was besieged, and the Turks

Felt for the first time threatened by land and by sea.

To resolve the situation, however, was the death of Sultan Mehmed II.

A new crisis arove within the Turkish Empire and Gedik Ahmed was called home.

In Otranto the Ottoman army got deprived of reinforcements

And pressed by the armies and the Christian militias,

Suffered a violent attack which caused considerable loss of life.

On September 10, 1481 the Islamic army handed over the city

Reduced to a pile of rubble, in which only 300 inhabitants had survived.