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For three years Heredia enjoyed undiminished prestige at the Aragonese court. He formed a close friendship with the heir to the throne, John, who was then a youth in his late teens and who acquired in these years an esteem and admiration for Heredia that were to endure a quarter-century of separation. It was largely due to Heredia's tutelage that John became the earliest perhaps of medieval princes to be interested in Greek literature, and his brief reign in Aragon saw a florescence of scholarship that not merely anticipated but in part influenced that of Renaissance Italy.
One can imagine the knights walking down this street in their black robes, carrying in their hands, as they do in so many pictures, the tasselled string of beads on which they counted out their hundred-and-fifty paternosters a day. The characteristic buildings are the Auberges, with their noble stone carvings facing the street and the graceful arcaded galleries of their garden fronts. These buildings are not the splendid creations of monastic or collegiate life, nor are they the grim fortresses that even merchants' town houses are in the Middle Ages; they are not castles - though the Auberge of France flourishes a few turrets for pomp's sake - and least of all are they barracks.
Their very independence in Rhodes freed them from political constraints and made them more susceptible to projects of Christian idealism. When in 1359 Peter I succeeded to the throne of Cyprus and revived the plan of conquering the Holy Land, the Knights of Rhodes leapt to the support of this policy of bygone chivalry. As in the thirteenth century, it was considered that Egypt was the key to Jerusalem, and in 1365 the harbour of Rhodes * This was after the bankruptcy of the Order's Italian bankers, provoked by the repudiation of his debts by Edward III of England, wiped out the Hospitaller war reserve of 360,000 florins.