ABSTRACT
In a speech at the Roman Academy di Notte on June 13, 1594, the Secretary of Papal State Minuccio Minucci mentioned 22 Asia Minor and Balkan kingdoms, from Trabzon to Hungary, which Turks had gradually swallowed. Among them he did not mention Dalmatia, where he had spent two years as a boy on the eve of the Cyprus War and was about to return in 1596 as the Archbishop of Zadar.
