 In 1565, the Pope elected the Albanian commander Giovanni Bruni, of the Bruni family, as the administrator of Budva.In 1570, shortly after the break of the Ottoman-Venetian war, the governor of Budva wrote a letter to Venice explaining that he had seized a brigantine of wheat which the cavalier Antonio Bruti had sent to Budva on its way to Venice, as thousands of civilians suffered in the city.In 1571, "Arman the Albanian", who was based in Budva, helped organized shipment of wheat from the Bunë river to Dubrovnik.