Luiggi Giafferi

Luiggi Giafferi (1668–1748) was born at Talasani in Corsica and captained in the Venetian army. Back home he entered the Noble Twelve and in 1706 went to Genoa as orator of Corsica pleading for reforms.

In the 1729–1730 anti-tax rising he helped turn the revolt into an armed political insurrection and became one of the first generals of the Nation. After imprisonment in the Savona fortress in 1732 he returned in 1734 to lead the second insurrection.

Under King Theodore he was prime minister in 1736 and then regent. French intervention forced him into exile in 1739.