Relatione più particolare del Signor Gio. Andrea Doria ...

After learning of the loss of Nicosia, the fleet returned to Crete. Doria tried to justify his actions with this Relatione, addressed to Marc’Antonio Colonna and dated the 5th of October.

The manuscript was published by Achille Gennarelli in Il Saggiatore, giornale romano di storia, letteratura, belle arti, filologia e varietà, vol. II, Roma 1844, pp. 358-365, under the title: Secondo manifesto del sig. Giovanni Andrea Doria. As in the previous document, the text displays significant variations.

Three copies of this manuscript are known: 1) the Ioannou copy, 2) the copy published by Gennarelli, and 3) a copy in the possession of the Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, published in I Codici Minucciani dell'Istituto Storico Germanico. Inventario a cura di Alexander Koller, Pier Paolo Piergentili e Gianni Venditti, ms. 7, no. 35, ff. 315-323v, p. 81.

With reference to all three manuscripts concerning Doria and the Cyprus expedition: The manuscripts were transcribed to order by a professional scribe, and the same scribe transcribed all three manuscripts. The number '4' probably refers to the volume into which all three manuscripts were bound. According to the folio number on the first leaf of each gathering, the order in which the manuscripts were originally bound was, first, the Colonna manuscript, then the Doria 'Parere' and finally the 'Relatione'. However, according to the Minucci volume, it is clear from the foliation that the correct order was first, the 'Parere', then the 'Relatione', and finally the 'Informatione'. This is confirmed by the note in a later hand on the first leaf of the 'Parere'.