Giannotto Lomellini
Giannotto Lomellini (Genoa, 1519 - Genoa, 1574) was the 68th Doge of the Republic of Genoa.
Giannotto Lomellini | |
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| 68th Doge of the Republic of Genoa | |
| In office October 10, 1571 – October 10, 1573 | |
| Preceded by | Paolo Giustiniani Moneglia |
| Succeeded by | Giacomo Grimaldi Durazzo |
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| Born | 1519 Genoa, Republic of Genoa |
| Died | 1574 Genoa, Republic of Genoa |
Biography
Like the dogates of his predecessors, the doge Lomellini, the twenty-third since the biennial reform and the sixty-eighth in republican history, also had to face the new noble contrasts that animated the streets of the Genoese capital. At the beginning of the mandate, the annals testify to a wide contrast with Matteo Senarega, esteemed and powerful chancellor of the Republic, and future doge in the two-year period 1595-1597, because of Lomellini's claims to sign the letters on an equal footing with foreign principles, protocol not provided instead in the Genoese order.[1][2]
More fortunate and important political strategy was the submission of Corsica after the independence and anti-Genoese unrest started by the leader Sampiero Corso; it was the same son of Sampiero, Alfonso, returning from France to negotiate the surrender with the Republic.[1]
After his mandate ended, Giannotto Lomellini died in Genoa in 1574 and was buried in a chapel at the bottom of the right nave of the Church of the Santissima Annunziata in Sturla.[1]
See also
References
- Buonadonna, Sergio. Rosso doge. I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797 (in Italian). De Ferrari.
- Varese, Carlo (1835). Storia della repubblica di Genova, dalla sua origine sino al 1814. Genoa: Yves Gravier. p. 95. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
