During this period he also formed a strong friendship with the Genoese anarchist poet Riccardo Mannerini.

From the late 1560s, galleys were also used to transport silver to Genoese bankers to finance Spanish troops against the Dutch uprising.

The current tower was built by the Genoese in 1348, on a different site, at the northernmost and highest point of the citadel of Galata.

The flight of the Genoese and of the baron Philip of Montfort, ruler of the Christian principality of Syria, concluded the first phase of the punitive expedition.