ALASSIO AND ITS FLORA 19 
oaths between all Ingaunian Communities, 
expecially between the people of Alassio 
and Albenga on the lO^'^ June 1454. A few 
years after in 1458 on the suggestion of 
Beatified Giovanni da Capistrano arose 
the convent of Nostra Signora degli An- 
geli, now enlarged and occupied by the 
fraternity of Don Bosco, Arts and sciences 
also commenced to flourish in this century 
in Alassio, and a painting of an ancient 
Alassian is remembered in the choir of 
the M. 0. at Porto Maurizio, executed by 
Giovanni Mairone. 
The people of Albenga seeing the pros- 
perity of Alassio, and the poverty of their 
own country, deserted their own dwellings 
towards the end of this century and the 
beginning of the following, and settled in 
Alassio. This produced a very considerable 
increase of population, and the country 
following the example of the Italian Re- 
publics began to elect its own councillors 
with a general parliament. Beside the 
quarrels with their neighbour Albenga, 
lively enmities divided the Alassian people, 
which were however calmed for the time 
