Chapter II: Book I: History

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CHAP. I.--Earliest Accounts, 1
II.--The Greeks, Etruscans, Carthaginians, and Romans in Corsica, 4
III.--State of the Island during the Roman Period, 8
IV.--Commencement of the Mediæval Period, 11
V.--Feudalism in Corsica, 14
VI.--The Pisans in Corsica, 17
VII.--Pisa or Genoa?--Giudice della Rocca, 20
VIII.--Commencement of Genoese Supremacy, 22
IX.--Struggles with Genoa--Arrigo della Rocca, 24
X.--Vincentello d'Istria, 27
XI.--The Bank of St. George of Genoa, 30
XII.--Patriotic Struggles--Giampolo da Leca--Renuccio della
Rocca, 34
XIII.--State of Corsica under the Bank of St. George, 38
XIV.--The Patriot Sampiero, 41
XV.--Sampiero--France and Corsica, 45
XVI.--Sampiero in Exile--His wife Vannina, 48
XVII.--Return of Sampiero--Stephen Doria, 52
XVIII.--The Death of Sampiero, 58
XIX.--Sampiero's Son, Alfonso--Treaty with Genoa, 62