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* FIERI FACIAS. 595 FIEVEE. (satisfaction) to be made <>i the goods and chat- tels. It was issued for the purpose of enforcing a judgment for damages or cost. Originally, as the clause quoted above indicates, ii was leviable only u| personal property. It a judgment creditor wished to levy upon real estate, h< obliged to take ou1 the wrii of elegil (q.v.). Both writs in mosl jurisdictions have been super- seded by the execul ion i q.v.) . FIERY BOLE'TUS. See Fungi, Edible and Poisonous. FIESCHI, fe-es'ke, GIUSEPPE Mahia (1790- 1836). A Corsican, notorious through his at- tempt on the life of King Louis Philippe. At first a shepherd, he later entered the Neapolitan Army under Murat. became a sergeant and a member of the Royal Bodyguard, and was given the cross of the Two Sicilies for bravery in the campaign of 1812-14. With shameless treachery he twice betrayed the cause of Murat to the Austrians. In 1816, having returned to Corsica, he was sent to prison for ten years for forgery, and served his time at Embrun. Alter leading the life of a vagabond for a year, Fiesehi came to Paris at the time of the July Revolution, and was employed by the police in a minor capacity. The immediate cause of his plot was his dis- missal by order of the prefect of the Seine. Dis- guising his purpose under the cloak of political enthusiasm, he leagued with himself one or two persons of republican enthusiasm, who hated the government of the citizen King. These were Morey, a saddler ; Pepin, a grocer ; and Victor Boireau, a maker of lamps. Fiesehi sketched the plan of an infernal machine with twenty barrels that could be simultaneously discharged; had one made, and placed it in a house on the Boule- vard du Temple. The review of the National Guard held there, July 28, 1835, afforded him I he opportunity ho desired. On the approach of the King and Queen he fired his machine. Eighteen people were killed, among whom was Marshal Mortier, who fell dead beside his sove- reign. Louis Philippe, however, escaped with a mere scratch, and was able to continue the re- view. The assassin was immediately seized, and, with his accomplices, was tried, condemned, and executed, February 16, 1836. Consult: Proces de Fiesehi et de ses accomplices, devani la cour des Pairs (Paris, 1S36), containing a biography of Fiesehi; Blanc, Histoire de dix ans (Paris, 1842; Eng. trans.. London. 1844-45) : Du Camp, Les inirrtres de la Commune: V attentat Fiesehi (Paris, 1S77) ; Thornbury, Old Stories (London, 1870). FIESCO, fe-es'kd. A tragedy by Schiller (17S3), and the name of its chief character. FIESCO, or FIESCHI, !•■ eVke, Giovanni Luici, Count of Lavagna ( c. 1523-47 ). The head of a conspiracy against Andrea Doria. He was born about 1523, and was a member of one of the oldest and most illustrious houses of Genoa. In organizing and planning his famous plot he seems to have been actuated by motives both of patriotism and class feeling. Andrea Doria, the famous admiral, sprung from a race hereditarily at feud with I he Fiesehi, having ex- pelled the forces of Francis I. from the State, had made himself practically dictator at Genoa, and held the office of doge, while his nephew, Gianettino. commanded the galleys. Count Fi- esco organized a plot, having for its object the deal h •oi ia, in spite "i repea ted ran ing refu .'.I to i reacherou i or ubvi i ivi di ign ■ Fii co, whom rded i i fri partisan, and an alliance by marriage was even arranged bi be families. ( plete ned at first to crown the conspirators. When the attack was ii'i.'li. ii ladi i.,i,.m 2, 1517, the gates of the i ity were forced, i be fieel wa - I lianet- tino was assassinated, and Dori flight. I he i louni had bu1 to appear and dictate ; l, u t he was nowhere to be found. Ii was finally dis- covered thai in stepping fn tlley to the other in the darkness oi night, I and, falling overboard, was borne down by his ponderous armor and drowned in the harbor. This |nii an en.l to the conspiracy. Doria re- turned in triumph, and those of the Fiesehi who were not slain were banished forever from Genoa. Schiller founded . tra • !;■ on this dra event. Consult: Vlascardi, Historical I: o tin Conspiracy of the Count i trans lated by Hare i Edinburgh, 1886 juration du comte di Fiesgui (Paris, 1884); Brea, Sulla congiura de conti O. I . I (Genoa, 1863) ; Sismondi, History of the Italian Republics (Eng. trans.. New York, FIESOLE, fya'zd-lfi (Lat. Fcesula). I the ancient Etruscan cities. It is situated on the crest of a hill, about three miles from Flor- ence. The heights of Fiesole command a remark- ably beautiful view of Florence and the surround- ing hills. In B.C. 225 Fiesole was the Bcene of a Roman defeat by the Gauls; here a I encamped after crossing the Apennines. The city was sacked by Sulla, who afterwards dispatched thither a military colony, which was eh. Catiline as his headquarters. During the Gothic rule in Italy, Fiesole was so strongly fortified and garrisoned as to endure a long siege by Beli- sarius. The growth of Florence during the Mid- dle Ages gradually reduced it to insignificance. It is now a place of about 2000 inhabitants. The only vestige of Etruscan structures still remain- ing is the eyclopean city wall, constructed of huge blocks of stone, many portions of which are wonderfully perfect. The site of the Etruscan fortress is now occupied by a convent, and inter- esting fragments of the foundations havi brought to light. To the Roman period belong the ancient theatre and some ruins of baths. The Church of Saint Alexander contains fifteen an- cient columns, and probably occupies the site of a Roman tern FIESOLE, Fra Giovanni da. See ANGELICO, Fra. FIESOLE, MlNO n.A. See MlNO DA I'n FriVEE, fya'va'. Joseph (1767-1839). A French publicist and novelist, horn in His Sur la nicessiti d'une n 1795), as well as many cutting epigrams, made him unpoplar with the Directory, and he thought it prudenl to withdraw to the country, where he spent his leisure in writing two clever i La dot ilc Surrtte (1798) and Frederic (1799).