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Procedural Reality in Corsica under the Rule of the Banco di San Giorgio after 1453

    Matthias Castelein

Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 2 / 2013, pp. 329-334, 2014/01/30

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doi: 10.1553/BRGOE2013-2s329

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doi:10.1553/BRGOE2013-2s329


Abstract

The colonization of Corsica (1453–1562) by the Genoese Banco di San Giorgio, a private financial institution with public powers, aimed at restoring law and order and installing a modern administration. However, the economic exploitation of the Isle was the ultimate goal of the capital investors of the Banco. The controversy about the nature and impact of the Banco’s governance on the Isle could disclose a particular stadium in the colonial and capitalistic expansion of the West. The attempt to establish a social contract between the Genoese administrators and the Corsican forces of opposition was revelatory. More specifically, we will discuss the internal processes of democratization in a fragmented Corsican society within an external colonial framework of oppressors which were themselves affected by sociopolitical struggles in the Republic of Genoa. In this way we will try to show how the interaction between the popular movement in Corsica and the new administrative model of the Banco di San Giorgio signified fascinating transformations in political philosophy and legal history. However the sad conclusion is that the struggle for equality was equivalent with a bloody disaster.

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