. Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras . the ambitious young Count Gianluigi Fiescosank, and sank, in the stinking slime, until thebrackish water filled his helmet and choked him !It was an inglorious death—at the moment ofvictory—and the victim of fatuous disasterceased his troubling at the all too early age oftwenty-two. The non-appearance of their leader producedconfusion and uncertainty in the ranks of therevolutionaries, and when reports of foul playwere bruited about, and proofs of the youngCounts untimely end were forthcoming, con-sternation reigned supreme. Morning broke,and with it brok
. Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras . the ambitious young Count Gianluigi Fiescosank, and sank, in the stinking slime, until thebrackish water filled his helmet and choked him !It was an inglorious death—at the moment ofvictory—and the victim of fatuous disasterceased his troubling at the all too early age oftwenty-two. The non-appearance of their leader producedconfusion and uncertainty in the ranks of therevolutionaries, and when reports of foul playwere bruited about, and proofs of the youngCounts untimely end were forthcoming, con-sternation reigned supreme. Morning broke,and with it broke the homogeny of the enter-prise. Each man thought of his own securityrather than that of his party : confusion andflight dispersed the Fieschi and their in the pay of Andrea Doria, or on theirown account, swords were whipped out byhundreds of citizens, and, for every man slainby the Fieschi, two were butchered in old Admiral, ill in bed at the outbreak ofthe revolution, was borne off by his servants 170. ffl 2 Palaces and Plots to his farm at Masone, some dozen miles up thePolcevera valley. With him went, of course,nis devoted spouse, Giannettinos widow,Giannetta, and her three children—Peretta, agood-looking girl of fifteen, Giannettino, a ladof twelve, who died the year after, and littleGianandrea, no more than eight years old, fromwhom is descended the present Prince Doria-Panfili. The Government met immediately after thedefeat of the conspirators and ordered the wholeof the Fieschi, with their agnates, to quit Genoaat once, but they extended a free pardon to allexcept such as had been made prisoners in clemency astounded Andrea, and the deathof Giannettino enraged him, so that the magnani-mous bearing of the hero of a hundred rightschanged to the vicious demeanour of a vindictivedespot. His victors coronal of green laurelleaves and scarlet berries he replaced, at leastmetaphorically, by a twisted tangle of piercingpine-needles. Br
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