text:  15 after a murderous siege of thirty-nine days in which both the governor Cornaro and the provveditor Molino were slain: but though the Turks received reinforcements to the amount of 30 000 men including 10 000 janissaries in the course of the following year it was not till May 1648 that the trenches were at length opened before Candia the capital of the island and the only fortress of importance still in the hands of the Venetians