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Wanderings in Corsica: Its History and Its Heroes is by Ferdinand Gregorovius, translated from the German, and is volume 1 of 2. The preface says its writer went over to the island of Corsica in the summer of the past year. The text says that among the epigrams on Corsica ascribed to Seneca, there is one which says of the Corsicans that their first law is to revenge themselves, their second to live by plunder, their third to lie, and their fourth to deny the gods.
Chapter IV, Commencement of the Mediæval Period, says that Corsica remained in the possession of the Romans, from whom in later times it received the Christian religion, till the fall of Rome made it once more a prey to the rovers by land and sea. The text says Corsica has been a department since the year 1811 and is governed by a prefect, who resides in Ajaccio. The text says that Alfieri inscribed verses on the copy of his tragedy which he sent to Pasquale.
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- Ferdinand Gregorovius
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