[4] He moved towards Lipari in the Kingdom of Naples where the viceroy, Pedro de Toledo, was warned of his movements.

[5] Barbarossa arrived and put the island under siege rejecting two envoys that had been sent asking for peace.

Lipari is already in my power: it is foolishly presumptuous to grant me apparently of your own free will what you no longer possess.

This is no time for treaties or agreements: you are all my slaves.” [5] Barbarossa eventually agreed to a negotiation for the freedom of 26 families in exchange for their belongings which he took before setting on fire the towns archives, stealing whatever he could find and desecrating a cathedral and a church.

[3] The Ottomans later sacked Vieste in southern Italy where they enslaved 7,000 inhabitants.