Chapter 50
September 1062 (454 from Hegira, the month of Ramadan) Tragina
Although he could boast more men, Corrado felt he was unable to face Roger and his three hundred knights. On the other hand, what was most dear to the Count's brother-in-law was not the fight or the desire to demonstrate his increased strength, rather the fact of being able to place his nearly seven hundred men as a guarantee of his own safety. Corrado knew he could little against the expert Norman warriors and hoped to obtain a reconciliation by which he too could dictate his conditions, so as not to disregard the people to whom he had promised so much; a strong game similar to what had happened between Guiscard and Roger not many weeks before. To do this, however, he would have to find the right ways and the righ
