2nd ed., corrected and
illustrated with unpublished documents by G. C. Gregori, 5 vols.,
Pisa, 1827-1832); J. M. Jacobi, _Hist. gen. de la Corse_, 2 vols.,
(Paris, 1833-1835), with many unpublished documents; L. H. Caird,
_History of Corsica_ (London, 1899). Further works and references to
articles in reviews, &c., are given in Ulysse Chevalier's _Repertoire
des sources_, &c., _Topo-bibliographie_, t. ii. s.v.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See "Conventions entre quelques seigneurs Corses et l'office de
St Georges (1453)," in _Bulletin soc. scientif. Corse_ (1881-1882),
pp. 286, 305, 413, 501, 549 and (1883) 147; also the report of the
deputies sent by the bank to Pope Nicholas V. in 1453, ib. p. 141.

[2] Hammer-Purgstall, _Gesch. des Osmanischen Reichs_ (Pest, 1840),
ii. 288.

[3] Father Cancellotti, who visited every part of the island,
estimated the number of murders committed in 20 years at 28,000
(quoted in the article on Corsica in _La Grande Encyclopedie_).

CORSICANA, a city and the county-seat of Navarro county, Texas, U.S.A.,
situated in the N.E. part of the state, about 55 m. S. of Dallas. Pop.
(1890) 6285; (1900) 9313, of whom 2399 were of negro descent; (1910
census) 9749. It is served by the Houston & Texas Central, the St Louis
South Western, and the Trinity & Brazos Valley railways. It is the
centre of a large and productive wheat- and cotton-growing region, which
has also numerous oil wells (with a total production in 1907 of 226,311
barrels). The city has two oil refineries, a large cotton gin and a
cotton compress, and among its manufactures are cotton-seed oil,
cotton-cloth, flour and ice. The total value of the factory product in
1905 was $1,796,805, being an increase of 50.3% since 1900. Natural gas
is extensively used for fuel and for lighting. Corsicana is the seat of
the Texas state orphan home and of an Odd Fellows widows' and orphans'
home, and has a Carnegie library. Corsicana was named in honour of the
wife of a Mexican, Navarro, who owned a large tract of land in the
county and from whom the county was named. The first permanent
settlement here was made in 1848, and Corsicana was incorporated as a
village in 1850 and chartered as a city in 1871.

CORSINI, the name of a Florentine princely family, of which the founder
is said to be Neri Corsini, who flourished about the year 1170. Like
other Florentine nobles the Corsini had at first no title