ALASSIO AND ITS FLORA 
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do(3trines, and to the new law of the Ge- 
noese Senate by which every parish that 
counted nine hundred souls could form 
itself into a Commune, that in the year 
1798 Moglio separated itself from Alassio 
and created its own Syndics, or Mayors, 
in the persons of Giov. Battista Porcella, 
Francesco and Domenico Bogliolo. But, 
like the laws of this epoch this new 
Commune shortly disappeared and Moglio 
was reunited with Alassio. . 
Many heroic actions were performed in 
Alassio during the frequent wars. Thus, 
Giuseppe Morteo saves and takes back from 
the Corsairs the ship and crew of Agostino 
Forcheri. The Marquis Onorato Ferrerihy 
his influence saves Alassio from entire 
destruction, obliging the English to throw 
into the sea the ammunition with which 
they intended to blow it up. Emmanuele 
Giraldi offers himself to slavery in the 
place of his father, and the Alassians 
having made a subscription released this 
generous man. Giacomo Mainetto who, went 
round the world in a small polacca (1788), 
Pietro Ravaglio, Pasquale Fontana, and 
