Chapter 21 JOACHIM MURAT.

"Espada nunca vencida!

Esfuer?o de esfuer?o estava."-Romanza Durandarte.

There is still a third very remarkable house in Vescovato-the house of the Ceccaldi family, from which two illustrious Corsicans have sprung; the historian already mentioned, and the brave General Andrew Colonna Ceccaldi, in his day one of the leading patriots of Corsica