ABSTRACT
Corsica was one of San Giorgio’s biggest territories. Several powerful families had extensive power in the hinterland, and factional conflicts were widespread. San Giorgio ruled over the island, founding fortresses, cities, and even plantations, with peasants it sent from Liguria. Corsica produces some of the most interesting social and political analyses and discourses on San Giorgio’s territorial power, comparing it to the power of the Commune of Genoa. It was also where the Church, through its priests and bishops, came into conflict with San Giorgio.
In Liguria and Lunigiana (nowadays northern Tuscany), San Giorgio dealt with local factions, most often the Fregoso family. In Lunigiana, San Giorgio was at war with Florence; this, in Lunigiana, is where some Florentine ambassadors wrote interesting texts that Machiavelli later developed. In Liguria in the early years of the sixteenth century, part of the population of Levanto, Ventimiglia, and Pieve di Teco petitioned to be under San Giorgio’s rule. Here San Giorgio’s financial support made the difference and the Commune’s dominion was perceived as a less convenient option.
