Does anyone have any information on the Corsican Blood Feud?

Question

A small part of one of my essays asks for information on the Corsican Blood Feud and I was wondering if anyone knew any information regarding it as my literature studies are difficult enough at the moment without having to sift through the internet. If you have ANY information please tell me as it will help so much.

Answer 1

Although politically a part of France, Corsica has had close ties with Italy. As in Sicily and other parts of Italy, Corsica was long noted for the practice of the vendetta, a blood feud between families or clans. Blood feuds are no longer common, but they have not been stopped in the less accessible parts of the island.

It has been estimated that in the course of the 17th and 18th centuries the vendetta cost the lives of 30,000 Corsicans.

IN Corsica, when a man is wronged by another, public sentiment requires that he redress his own grievance, and that his family and friends shall share the consequences.

" Before the law made us citizens, great Nature made us men."

" When one has an enemy, one must choose between the three S's-schiopetto, stiletto, strada : the rifle, the dagger, or flight."

" There are two presents to be made to an enemypalla calda o ferro freddo : hot shot or cold steel."

The Corsican code of honor does not require that vengeance be taken in fair fight. Rather should there be a sudden thrust of the knife, or a pistol fired point-blank into the enemy's breast, or a rifle-shot from some ambush picked in advance.

The assassin is not conscious of any cowardice in such act. If the trouble between him and his foe had been strictly a personal matter, to be settled forever by one man's fall, then he might have welcomed a duel with all the punctilios. But his blood is not his alone-it belongs to his clan. Whenever a Corsican is slain his family takes up the feud. A vendetta ensues-a war of extermination by clan against clan.

Answer 2

Vendetta is the Italian word for revenge. The Blood Feud was originated in Corsica and came into being because the Government could not be trusted to dispense proper justice so private means were considered more reliable.

While a vendetta can mean any type of retaliation, a Blood Feud means the taking of a life.The obligation to carry on the vendetta usually rests on the male who is next of kin to the wronged person. Regrettably the families continue alternating retaliation in kind for generations, even to this day.

Answer 3

i don't see why we would desire to continuously see an ignition of an previous feud. issues warmth up too speedy at Bristol and the feuding will take place at any specific 2d, not in undemanding terms because of the fact of a previous conflict of words. The drivers do not extremely %. who they opt for to feud with in a race. that is only whoever they might desire to race annoying against on the time. it would desire to be every person. There might desire to be some new feuds forming at Bristol, and we can only might desire to observe the race and locate out why.

Answer 4

there's an old film called the corsican brothers which helps to explain son=me of the subject matter your looking into

Answer 5

http://www.newrivernotes.com/osh/osh15.htm

http://www.maybole.org/history/Books/legends/feudofglencairnandeglinton.htm