sentences:  In 1347, after years of more political turmoil, a diet of "caporali" and barons offered the Genoese republic the sovereignty of the isle.By the agreement with Genoa, regular tribute was to be paid, but the Corsicans were allowed to retain their own laws and customs, to be governed by their own bodies, the Twelve in the north and a new council of Six in the south, and be represented at Genoa by an orator.It was, however, an inauspicious year.