Wanderings in Corsica: Its History and Its Heroes, Volume 1

Thomas Constable and Company, 1855 - 290 pages

HISTORY	1

The Greeks Etruscans Carthaginians and Romans in Corsica	4

State of the Island during the Roman Period	8

Commencement of the Mediæval Period V Feudalism in Corsica	14

The Pisans in Corsica	17

Pisa or Genoa ?Giudice della Rocca	20

Commencement of Genoese Supremacy	22

Struggles with GenoaArrigo della Rocca	24

XIIThe Dying Struggle PAGE	86

Theodore I King of Corsica	90

Arrival in Corsica	130

The City of Bastia	137

Environs of Bastia	144

Francesco Marmocchi of FlorenceThe Geology of Corsica V A Second Lesson the Vegetation of Corsica	149

4	153

8	159

Vincentello dIstria	27

The Bank of St George of Genoa	30

Patriotic StrugglesGiampolo da LecaRenuccio della Rocca	34

State of Corsica under the Bank of St George	38

The Patriot Sampiero	41

SampieroFrance and Corsica	45

Sampiero in ExileHis wife Vannina	48

Return of SampieroStephen Doria	52

The Death of Sampiero	58

Sampieros Son AlfonsoTreaty with Genoa	62

HISTORY CHAP IState of Corsica in the Sixteenth CenturyA Greek Colony established on the Island	66

Insurrection against Genoa	72

Successes against Genoa and German MercenariesPeace concluded	76

Recommencement of HostilitiesDeclaration of IndependenceDe mocratic Constitution of Costa	81

Baron Theodore von Neuhoff	85

Learned Men	160

41	164

Bracciamozzo the Bandit	172

The Vendetta or Revenge to the Death XBandit Life 160	176

BOOK IV	198

From Brando to Luri	203

Pino	208

The Tower of Seneca	212

Seneca Morale VI Seneca Birbone	217

BOOK V	218

76	225

CHAP IVescovato and the Corsican Historians	246

Rousseau and the Corsicans III The MorescaArmed Dance of the Corsicans IV Joachim Murat	256

The Old Hermit XII The Battlefield of Ponte Nuovo	314

Title	Wanderings in Corsica: Its History and Its Heroes, Volume 1 Volumes 5-6 of Constable's misc. of foreign. lit Volumes 5-6 of Constable's miscellany of foreign literature Wanderings in Corsica: Its History and Its Heroes, Ferdinand Gregorovius
Author	Ferdinand Gregorovius
Publisher	Thomas Constable and Company, 1855
Original from	Columbia University
Digitized	9 Jul 2009
Length	290 pages

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