Italy: handbook for travellers First Part, Northern Italy and Corsica . ^. TlaimmtaatrEfLWaojiP! * AJACCIO. 54. Route. 337 Their oppressive sway, however, gave rise to a long series of conspiraciesand insurrections, in many of which a number of remarkable charactersand bold adventurers distinguished themselves. Thus Arrigo della Rocca,Vincentello dIstria, and Giampolo da Leca in the 14th and 15th cent., andRenuccio della Rocca and Sampiero di Bastelica (killed on Jan. 17th, 1567)in the 16th. Finally, in 1729, the universal disaffection to Genoa began tuassume a more serious aspect, n
Italy: handbook for travellers First Part, Northern Italy and Corsica . ^. TlaimmtaatrEfLWaojiP! * AJACCIO. 54. Route. 337 Their oppressive sway, however, gave rise to a long series of conspiraciesand insurrections, in many of which a number of remarkable charactersand bold adventurers distinguished themselves. Thus Arrigo della Rocca,Vincentello dIstria, and Giampolo da Leca in the 14th and 15th cent., andRenuccio della Rocca and Sampiero di Bastelica (killed on Jan. 17th, 1567)in the 16th. Finally, in 1729, the universal disaffection to Genoa began tuassume a more serious aspect, notwithstanding the efforts made by the Re-public to stifle it with the aid of German auxiliaries. The last of a longsuccession of adventurers was a Baron Theodore Neuhof, son of a West-phalian noble, who landed on March 12th, 1736, at Aleria, near the mouthof the Tavignano, attended by a number of followers, and provided withwarlike equipments. He was shortly afterwards proclaimed king of Corsica,under the title of Theodore I., but his success was short-lived, for the G
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