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and removed thither. In Genoa the family flourished 

 anew , attained considerable importance and acciuired 

 great riches. The^' owned many palaces, and in the 

 Cathedral of San Lorenzo the\- possessed a special Chapel 

 and burial vault. In the thirteenth :Centur^• the famih' 

 split into two branches, the Savignone and the Toriglia. 

 To the lirst lamil\- belonged Gian Ijuigi il (irande, who 

 had entertained Louis XII of France in his palace "Vhx 

 Late". From this Gian Luigi was descended Sinebaldo, 

 and from his union with Maria della Rovere, niece of 

 Pope Julius II, proceeded that Gian Luigi, the third of 

 this name, u'ho placed himself at the head of the con- 

 spiracy- against the Dorias. It is well known that some 

 words of Rousseau'.s, to the effect that this Fiesco was 

 one of the most remarkable characters in histor\-, prompt- 

 ed Schiller to make this man the subject of a traged\-. 



If you make excursions inland from Sestri Levante 

 in the early spring ^■ou will be struck h\ the backward 

 appearance ot the \'egetation, especially in tlie higher 

 regions of the ^\pennines. For there winter is not over 

 till Ma\-. Nevertheless one ought not to miss the drive 

 to Bracco on the road leading from Sestri Levante over 

 the Apennines to Spczia, for it commands a number of 

 charming views i)\'er the sea and coast. 



Here we find ourselves agam on the old Roman 

 road that connected Luni with the (.Tcnoese coast. It 

 divided on the top of the mountain at the present village 

 of Mattarana, one branch running down to the sea at 

 Moneglia through the \"al di Deiva, and the other leading 

 past Bracco to Segesta TiguUorum, the present Sestri 



