GENOA 



GENTIAN 



1528. Self-government was re- 

 stored by Andrea Doria and lasted 

 until the French Revolution and 

 the creation of the Ligurian Repub- 

 lic. In 1800 it sustained a siege by 

 a British fleet and an Austrian 

 armv, and capitulated. It was 

 delivered up to the French on their 

 victory at Marengo. Early in 1814 

 it was taken by the British under 

 Lord Bentinck, but at the Peace of 

 Paris the city and territory of 

 Genoa was assigned to the king of 

 Sardinia and incorporated as a 

 state into his dominions. 



The birthplace of Columbus and 

 Mazzini, the seat for centuries of 

 the bankers of the Spanish sover- 

 eigns and the outfitters of Spain's 

 fleets and armies, Genoa has been 

 and is one of the wealthiest, most 

 independent and prosperous of 

 Italian cities, legitimately calling 

 herself Geneva la Superba. Pop. 

 300,139. See Genoa : How the 



Genoa. 1. The lighthouse and the western part of the port. 2. Piazza 



Carvetto and Vittorio Emanuele statue. 3. Cathedral of S. Lorenzo. 4. General 



view of the town from the east 



Republic Rose and Fell, J. T. 

 Bent, 1881 ; The City of Genoa, 

 R. W. Garden, 1908. 



Genoa, GULF OF. Extension of 

 the Ligurian Sea, Italy. From An- 

 doria in the W. to Spezia in the E. 

 the entrance is 88 m. across, and 

 the gulf penetrates inland to a 

 depth of 32 m. The coastal strip 

 is divided between the Riviera di 

 Ponente on the W. and the Riviera 

 di Levante on the E. The city of 



Genoa, from which it is named, 

 stands at the head of the gulf. 



Genre (Fr., kind, sort). Word 

 meaning mode or style, but 

 specifically employed to describe 



Pictures of everyday life, such as 

 omestic interiors, village scenes 

 and manners. The French apply 

 the term to various classes of 

 painting by means of a distinctive 

 epithet, as genre du paysage. (land- 

 scape) and genre historique (his- 



tory), but this 

 usage destroys 

 the peculiar sig- 

 nificance of the 

 word and is not 

 legitimate. Dutch 

 painters like 

 David Teniers 

 the Younger were 

 masters of genre, 

 as were David 

 Wilkie and Er- 

 skine Nicol in the 

 British school. 



Gens. Term 

 applied by the 

 Romans to a 

 body of people 

 regarding them- 

 selves as descend- 

 ed from a com- 

 m o n ancestor. 

 Among famous 

 Roman gentes 

 were the gens 

 Julia, the gens 

 Cornelia, and the 

 gens Fab ia. In 

 Roman names the gens was indi- 

 cated by the second name, e.g. Caius 

 Julius Caesar. Broadly speaking, 

 a gens was similar to a Scottish 

 clan. See Rome : History. 



Genseric. Popular, but less 

 correct, name of Gaiseric (q.v.), 

 king of the Vandals. 



Gentian (Gentiana). Large 

 genus of annual and perennial 

 herbs of the natural order Gentian- 

 aceae, natives of all temperate and 

 alpine regions. The leaves are 

 mostly opposite and undivided, but 

 trefoils in Menyanthes ; the flowers 

 funnel-shaped, purple, yellow, or 

 white. The fruit is a two-valved 

 capsule with many seeds. The 

 flowers of the gentians are among 

 the most beautiful of any plants, 

 the blues often being of a more 

 intense and vivid hue than can be 

 found elsewhere. Of this kind is 

 the Gentianella (G. acaulis) of the 

 Alps and Pyrenees, where the large 

 flowers appear out of proportion to 

 the small stemless plant that bears 

 them. Another exquisite bit of 

 colour, though on a smaller scale, 



