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When the walls of the citadel ceded

The Turks broke through the doors of the Cathedral,

Where they committed a terrible massacre.

The clergy and many citizens found praying

Were cut to pieces with their scimitars.

"The heroes were furious as the Nile

And attacked with drawn swords that burned like fire,

Blowing out with swords the fire of the vile bodies

Of those infidels dogs from Hell,

And knocked down those arrogants with the tips of the spears.

Those evil, those villains went out as shrubs taken from the fire.

The battlefield was full with the corpses of the soldiers of the West.

Defeated the evil enemy, the winners, soldiers fighting

For the victory of Islam, sold some of the prisoners and killed some others."

Otranto fell after two weeks of heroic resistance.