HISTORICAL SKETCH 
OF ALASSIO 
An infinite number of writers of Ligu- 
rian history have busied themselves about 
the origin of Alassio. Leaving apart the 
lengthened discussions concerning the Ale- 
ramican legend, and the Benedictine fathers, 
and Lamium, and omitting the opinion 
that makes Saracens, Catalans, and Coralins, 
by turn, the founders of Alassio, we affirm 
■ that the foundation is not to be attributed 
to any one particular person but that it 
arose from a variety of causes and circum- 
stances. The frequent incursions of the bar- 
barians, the plagues, the famines, the ruin 
, arid desolation that afflicted the Ligurian 
countries from A. D. 400 to A. D. 800 in- 
duced the Ligurians and especially the 
