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Title: Heroines of Genoa and the Rivieras
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Staley, Edgcumbe, b. 1845
Subjects: Women -- Italy Genoa Genoa (Italy) -- History Riviera (Italy)
Publisher: London : T. W. Laurie
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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grips with Romanlegionaries. The town, when Christian, becamea fief of the Papal Tiara, and remained faithfulto Guelfan traditions. The Crusades gave Ra-pallo to Genoa ; so her people witnessed thedefeat of Pisa, off the Ligurian island of Meloria,when her sons—fifty, they say—left broken-hearted sweethearts and wives to mourn theiruntimely deaths. Then family feuds drenchedRapallo streets with blood; Fieschi, Grimaldi andtheir country allies fought to a finish Doria,Spinola, delle Torre and Marchioni. Corsairsmade sport and slaughter of the Rapellese : thedreaded Dragut—whom Princess Peretta Doriabefriended—sacked the place in 1549, outragedthe women and bore off the men as slaves.Many heroic deeds were done. Bartolommeo Maggiocco, a youth of seventeenyears of age, seeing the carnage and brutality,left his fathers house and rushed through thelines of wild armed men to the abode of hissweetheart. Snatching the fainting girl by thehand, he dragged and carried her beyond the 298
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LA SIGNORINETTA MARGHERITA BRIGNOLE-SALE Anthony Vandyck. PALAZZO ROSSO, GENOA. Riviera Romances zone of danger, receiving, as he fled, not one butmany shots. Alas ! the girl was struck too, andfatally, but Bartolommeo bore her in his armsto the summit of Montallegro, and there shedied. Bartolommeo was never seen again : herbody received Christian burial, but his may bein the deep. The story of the Loves of Barto-lommeo and Angela is told upon a marble slaboutside the pilgrimage Church of the Madonna.Everyone who visits Rapallo climbs through therich olive-yards and under the shady ilex-oaks,right over crumbling rock and scented heather, tothe famous shrine of the miraculous picture of theMadonna of the Mountain. The view, the fineston either Riviera, is enough to repay the venture,even if one has no taste for romance. It was on2nd July 1557 that a poor but honest peasant, atiller of the soil of the village of San Giacomo diCanevole, eight miles from Rapallo as the crowflies, right be

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