I am under many obligations for literary assistance to the learned Corsican Benedetto Viale, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Rome; and it would be difficult for me to say how helpful various friends were to me in Corsica itself. My especial thanks are, however, due to the exiled Florentine geographer, Francesco Marmocchi, and to Camillo Friess, Archivarius in Ajaccio. ROME, April 2, 1853. The Translator begs to acknowledge his obligations to L. C. C. (the translator of Grillparzer's _Sappho_), for the translation of the Lullaby, pp. 240, 241, in the first volume; the Voceros which begin on pp. 51, 52, and 54, in the second volume, and the poem which concludes the work. EDINBURGH, February 1855. CONTENTS. BOOK I.--HISTORY. PAGE CHAP. I.--Earliest Accounts, 1 II.--The Greeks, Etruscans, Carthaginians, and Romans in Corsica, 4 III.--State of the Island during the Roman Period, 8 IV.--Commencement of the Mediæval Period, 11 V.--Feudalism in Corsica, 14 VI.--The Pisans in Corsica, 17 VII.--Pisa or Genoa?--Giudice della Rocca, 20 VIII.--Commencement of Genoese Supremacy, 22 IX.--Struggles with Genoa--Arrigo della Rocca, 24 X.--Vincentello d'Istria, 27 XI.--The Bank of St. George of Genoa, 30 XII.--Patriotic Struggles--Giampolo da Leca--Renuccio della Rocca, 34 XIII.--State of Corsica under the Bank of St. George, 38 XIV.--The Patriot Sampiero, 41 XV.--Sampiero--France and Corsica, 45 XVI.--Sampiero in Exile--His wife Vannina, 48 XVII.--Return of Sampiero--Stephen Doria, 52 XVIII.--The Death of Sampiero, 58 XIX.--Sampiero's Son, Alfonso--Treaty with Genoa, 62 BOOK II.--HISTORY.