Circinellu
We do not know large thing of Dumenicu Leca, known as Circinellu . Originating in the Pieve of Vicu, he was priest of Guagnu. Partisan of Pasquale Paoli and the independence of the island, it is a figure of the resistance of Corsica. Thus it lent oath on its furnace bridge not to deposit the weapons as long as the fatherland would be occupied. After the demolished of Big shot Novu and the end of the dream of independence of Corsica, he galvanizes his troops and organizes resistance in his Pieve. But it is tracked, its goods are devastated and its head is put at price by the troops of the French Army. For not that repression falls down on his and its area, he flees for Fiumorbu. He is found died in 1771 in a cave of Ania (where the toponym has Grotta di Circinellu always exists), a crucifix in a hand, a dagger in the other. He incarnated the patriotism of the insular clergy during the wars of independence of Corsica.
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