Note 042
From Chapter 67 of the Decline & Fall

In honor of his hero, Barletius (l. vi. p. 188 -192) kills the sultan by disease indeed, under the walls of Croya. But this audacious fiction is disproved by the Greeks and Turks, who agree in the time and manner of Amurath's death at Adrianople.

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