Filippo Lascaris, also known as Memí Çelebi Spahi (... - ...), from the sources is indicated as the last descendant of Megaduca Lascaris and the last son of the Count of Kefalonia.

The older brothers were serving Venice and had fallen in combat in Cyprus. Philip was captured when he had not yet reached maturity during a Turkish conquest of Patras, probably by Khayr al-Din Barbarossa in 1533. He was obliged to convert, he was a rider (sipāhī, in Turkish language) Ottoman empire, with a fief in assignment.

During the siege of Malta (1565) by the fleet of Solimano, the Magnificent sent him Memí diserta and reaches to swim the adversary field, warning the Knights of an imminent attack that will be rejected. According to Bosio, he was then 55 years old. After the Ottoman retreat from Malta, Filippo Lascaris was led to Rome where he received baptism and seems to have even gone to Vienna where he would reveal the plans of attack for a war action in Hungary in 1566. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto

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