[Manuscript - Colonna, Angelo Francesco] Colonna heroica cronologia degli Huomini illustri ed armigeri del Regno di corsica. Libro XVI à libro vigesimo secondo. The last libro, which is not numbered, corresponds to libro 23 and last. One volume in-4°, leaves numbered 354 to 529, the other 182 leaves (from libro Decimo ottavo) are no longer numbered, supple ivory vellum of the time, in accessible handwriting, marginal notes in another hand. Some foxing, light wetness, paper occasionally browned. The manuscript covers a period extending from approximately 314 AD, under the reign of Constantine I, to 1684, when Louis XIV's troops arrived in Genoa. The last libro (23 of the manuscript in the Corte central lending library, U libri Corsu), is entitled Cronologia di molti chirurgi , e medici ne l regno di Corsica, then Cronologia degli uomini illustri di scienze e lettere . It can be dated to the early eighteenth century. The title page of the Corte manuscript states that the author is de Giovellina, dottore delle legge e arcidiacono della città d'Aiaccio. It begins in libro X, Anno del mondo 3947, e di Roma 734. The missing part may be considered of lesser interest. The work is a compilation, in the course of which the author quotes the great Corsican chroniclers as well as many other works, such as Saint Augustine, with references. Pontificates and emperors are often used as reference points in this chronology, including letters written by Pope Saint Gregory the Great. In libro 23, among the doctors and surgeons, we find the names of Giacomo Castiglioni, who practised in Santa reparata di Balagna, around 1620; Durantio Rocci di Rapaggio d'Orezza, surgeon, around 1625; Simon Giovanni di Castifao di Cauria, studied in Rome l'arte manuale di medicina", around 1630; Givanello Casteli du Carcheto d'Orezza, circa 1655; Giovanni Danielo della Corbara di Balagna, "dottore di medicina chimica", is said to have written a very useful book entitled "prontuarium medico chimicum"; Giacomo Malaspina di Belgodere di Balagna; Francesco Maria Canale di Verde...The excellent Dr Ambrozio Vadulla Cervoni, physician and surgeon from Castifao de Caccia, studied in Padua, and for his great virtue, was called by the Emperor Leopold in 1694 to Vienna, and to the Pope. AP