ALASSIO AND ITS FLORA 23 
now Santa Chiara; Giuseppe Alciato left a 
legacy to the parish church of 3166 francs, 
and Giov, Amdrogio founded the schools 
with his large inheritance. — Pietro Bo- 
gliolo built the church of San Fdbiano 
and San Sehastiano in his village of Moglio 
which was afterwards raised to the di- 
gnity of a parish church. The coral fishers 
founded the church of SanfErasmo with 
their offerings, and in 1620 the Alassians 
restored the tottering Sanctuary of San 
Bernardo. Such deeds of magnificent ge- 
nerosity should be recorded with praise, as 
they made illustrious not only the persons 
who performed them, but also the city of 
their birth. — With regard to politics the 
fatal struggle with the people of Albenga 
recommenced in 1689, but Albenga had 
again the worst of it; and as to public 
administration, the Podestd and the Con- 
siglio minore ruled the Commune, and on 
great occasions the general parliament of 
the heads of families gave the final de- 
cisions. 
And now we come to the fatal 18'^' cen- 
tury, at the beginning of which the Alas- 
