text:  Negotiations for peace meanwhile had been kept on foot almost from the first; but as the Ottoman pride absolutely refused to listen to any propositions which did not include the total and unconditional surrender of Candia no pacification could be effected; and the war continued to linger till Ahmed-Kiuprili secured on the side of Hungary by the peace with Austria collected all the forces of the empire to crush this last fragment of Venetian dominion in the Levant