. Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras. liament Houseas well—to choose a new figurehead for therepublic, and a great crowd of citizens filled thepiazza outside. Suddenly a loud voice washeard in the street asking : * Why dont youend your deliberations, and elect Messir SimoneBoccanegra, he is a man of worth and of wisecounsels ? The cry was taken up unanimouslyby the people, but Messir Boccanegra protestedhis unfitness for so distinguished an office, anddiffidently exclaimed : * None of my familyhave been Abbate/ I pray you choose some-one more suitable than me. The populace wereinsistent and re
. Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras. liament Houseas well—to choose a new figurehead for therepublic, and a great crowd of citizens filled thepiazza outside. Suddenly a loud voice washeard in the street asking : * Why dont youend your deliberations, and elect Messir SimoneBoccanegra, he is a man of worth and of wisecounsels ? The cry was taken up unanimouslyby the people, but Messir Boccanegra protestedhis unfitness for so distinguished an office, anddiffidently exclaimed : * None of my familyhave been Abbate/ I pray you choose some-one more suitable than me. The populace wereinsistent and replied : If you wont be our Abbate you shall be our Signore ! Stag-gered by the demonstration the nobles came intothe piazza and tried to restrain the people:this was a very serious position of affairs, fortheir authority and priority were two Capitani—Antonio Doria, who after-wards as Captain of the Genoese Crossbowmenin the service of the King of France, fell at Cre9y,and Galeotto Spinola, wealthy Opizzimos son 84. SANTA-CATERINA DI GENOVA. (Caterina Fiesca—Adorno). Frate Bernardo Strozzi. PALAZZO DURAZZO-PALLAVICINI, G NOA. Doges and Daughters asked Boccanegra to decline the nomination,seeing that he was no more than an ordinarymerchant, and to withdraw peaceably to hisoffice. He again faced the people standingbetween the Capitani. Do you wish me toact in concert with the noble Capitani ? heasked. The reply was prompt and unanimous :* Thou shalt be our Signore and our Doge ! —and, without more ado, the astonished Bocca-negra was borne shoulder-high, by his admirers,and carried in triumph to his modest days later he was duly installed as thefirst Doge of Genoa. This was certainly a bloodless revolution, and,as such episodes went in Genoa, it was almostunique ; but it astounded the nobles, who sawthat their pre-eminence would be counter-balanced by an entirely new order of Cittadini Nobili very shortly after sprangto the front, and k
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