Description
Collective work
Co-publishing : Museum of Corsica, CdC/Albiana – 2018
24 x 32 cm
270 pages- 470 illustrations
ISBN : 978-2-8241-0914-5
ISBN (museum) : 978-2-909703-61-9
CONTENTS
Preface 1 – Gilles Simeoni
Preface 2 – Pierre-Jean Campocasso
Preamble – Michel Pastoureau
Michel Vergé-Franceschi
1. 1736 : a Westphalian baron disembarked in Corsica with a banner or a flag bearing a Moor’s head
Ernesto Fernández-Xesta y Vázquez
2. Sigillographic and documentary titles used by the kings of the Crown of Aragon as kings of Corsica
Barbara Fois
3. Sardinia and the coat of arms of the four Moors
Michel Popoff
4. Argent with a Moor’s head Sable, twisted of the field
Philippe Colombani
5. The origins of the Moor’s head: the Aragonese imprint
Carlo Bitossi
6. The image of Corsica in the political thought and historiography of Genoa in the 16th-18th centuries
Michel Popoff
7. Corsican coins and some other documents
Antoine Franzini
8. For the freedom of the Corsican nation: symbolic initiatives in the eyes of Europe (1729-1769)
Virginie Bar and Dominique Brême
9. Allegoria corsicae
Anna Gnedina-Moretti
10. The head of Moor and the Republic from 1792 to our days – A thwarted cohabitation
Dominique Gresle-Pouligny
11. The emblem of Corsica in the cartographic representations of the island. XVIth-XVIIIth centuries
GLANCES OF COLLECTIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS
