[1] It survives in a single manuscript, either the author's original or a contemporary copy, in Munich, Bavarian State Library, K. schw.
In 1607, Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany had landed troops on Cyprus in hopes of meeting a Greek uprising before joining Fakhr al-Din and his ally, Ali Janbulad.
Ferdinand died in February 1609, but his successor, Cosimo II, renewed the alliance with Fakhr al-Din.
He thought that the Greeks would rise up if Constantinople were attacked and he expected the Maronites to support Fakhr al-Din's rebellion and give assistance to the crusaders once they arrived.
[4] Although Dominelli was a cleric writing at a time when the crusades were a thing of the past, Sylvia Schein classes his proposal among the secular and practical because informed by his personal experience and knowledge of the East.