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For administrative purposes Guernsey is united with Alderney, Sark, Herm
and the adjacent islets to form the bailiwick of Guernsey, separate from
Jersey. The peculiar constitution, machinery of administration and
justice, finance, &c., are considered under the heading CHANNEL ISLANDS.
Guernsey is divided into the ten parishes of St Peter Port, St Sampson,
Vale, Catel, St Saviour, St Andrew, St Martin, Forest, St Peter du Bois
and Torteval. The population of St Peter Port in 1901 was 18,264; of the
other parishes that of St Sampson was 5614 and that of Vale 5082. The
population of the bailiwick of Guernsey nearly doubled between 1821 and
1901, and that of the island increased from 35,243 in 1891 to 40,446 in
1901. The island roads are excellent, Guernsey owing much in this
respect to Sir John Doyle (d. 1834), the governor whose monument stands
on the promontory of Jerbourg. Like Jersey and the neighbouring part of
France, Guernsey retains considerable traces of early habitation in
cromlechs and menhirs, of which the most notable is the cromlech in the
north at L'Ancresse. As regards ecclesiastical architecture, all the
parish churches retain some archaeological interest. There is good
Norman work in the church of St Michael, Vale, and the church of St
Peter Port is a notable building of various periods from the early 14th
century. Small remains of monastic buildings are seen at Vale and on
Lihou Island.
GUERRAZZI, FRANCESCO DOMENICO (1804-1873), Italian publicist, born at
Leghorn, was educated for the law at Pisa, and began to practise in his
native place. But he soon took to politics and literature, under the
influence of Byron, and his novel, the _Battagli di Benevento_ (1827),
brought him into notice. Mazzini made his acquaintance, and with Carlo
Bini they started a paper, the _Indicatore_, at Leghorn in 1829, which
was quickly suppressed. Guerrazzi himself had to endure several terms of
imprisonment for his activity in the cause of Young Italy, and it was in
Portoferrato in 1834 that he wrote his most famous novel _Assidio di
Firenze_. He was the most powerful Liberal leader at Leghorn, and in
1848 became a minister, with some idea of exercising a moderating
influence in the difficulties with the grand-duke of Tuscany. In 1849,
when the latter fled, he was first one of the triumvirate with Mazzini
and Montanelli, and then dictator, but on the restoration he was
arrested and imprisoned for three years. His _Apologia_ was published in
1852. Released from prison, he was exiled to Corsica, but subsequently
was restored and was for some time a deputy at Turin (1862-1870), dying
of apoplexy at Leghorn on the 25th of September 1873. He wrote a number
of other works besides the novels already mentioned, notably _Isabella
Orsini_ (1845) and _Beatrice Cenci_ (1854), and his _Opere_ were
collected at Milan (1868).
See the _Life and Works_ by Bosio (1877), and Carducci's edition of
his letters (1880).
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