Colomba Carabelli
Colomba Carabelli was the maiden name of a figure in Corsican contemporary history of the 19th century, whom the French writer Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) knew and who worked on in his 1840 novella Colomba .
The 64-year-old Corsican Colomba Bartoli (et Fozzano) lived in Fozzano near Olmeto in the Alta Rocca in the Corse-du-Sud department in 1839 . Their village was the scene of a bloody vendetta between the Carabelli / Bartoli and Durazzo families in 1833 . Her father, son, a family friend and two of the Durazzos had already been murdered. The instigator of the feud was Columba, who makes Mérimée the symbol of "old Corsica" in a controversial way. The monstrous residential towers of the two families are still preserved and can be visited. The Carabelli lived in the Torre Vecchia (old tower) from the 14th century and the Durazzo lived in the Torre Nova (new tower) from the 16th century.