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== Chapter One: Origin and Events ==
Some father historians, based on Diti, contemporary Cretan at the war of Troy, wish that Antenore as the first to land on the island should build a city, of the dark appearance of its woods called Corcira Melaena. Other followers of his in that position claim that they should not be exiles of Ilius, but, fugitives of Gnido. In turn the vernacularisation of Ditti, work of Cav. Compagnoni , no longer Antenore, who remained in Greece, but the said Aeneas, would like as leader of the colony and founder of the city of Curzola, competing with the opinion of Darete, Phrygian, other contemporary.
The truth of this claim, considering the mythological chronology of the grammatical Alexandrian Heratostene, would oblige us to go back to approximately 1184 BC, at the time in which according to the Bible, Gideon judged Israel: 126 years prior to David coming to the throne. But the historian, more traditional than anything else, cannot rely on vague claims. Yet least of all when facing criticism and Diti and Darete did not know how to support their historical existence and truth, whether Antenore or Aeneas was the leader, or Gnidi or the Trojans the colonists, the study of local antiquities cannot unless to arouse
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