23214 - Nothing is better known
N. Lygeros
Translated from the French by Vicky Baklessi
Nothing is better known
than the Siege of Malta
wrote Voltaire
to testify in his tour
the magnitude of the exploit
and we after 450 years
still wonder
how the Knights
so few on the island
managed to resist
the Ottoman Empire
who used their entire force
to crush them and destroy them
without however succeeding
because the art of siege
of Jean Parisot de la Valette
was highly superior
to the worst estimations
so the Europeans
managed the miracle
and saved Christianity
thanks to the strategy
of Humanity.