The Venetians were confident of their ships and their mariners, but that day it was the Genoese who were victorious.

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Also in Cimiez, found through a dense olive grove, is a 17th-century Genoese villa, which houses the Henri Matisse Museum.

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The teacher was Mr. Zuberti, a stuck-up Florentine or Genoese -- from up North somewhere, where they thought Sicilians were scum.

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The Spanish made a point of burning it in 1625, after a ten-month siege led by the brilliant Genoese aristocrat Ambrogio Spinola.

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The mysterious Nuraghic people came around 1800 BC, followed by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans, Germanic Vandals, Byzantines, Pisans, Genoese and Spanish, before the island was incorporated into a unified Italy in 1861.

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