Biography
His dogal mandate is remembered in the annals for the strong work of opposition and crushing of the ever more numerous gangs of brigands led, among others, also by exited Genoese patricians. Among the public works there is the large wall of the moat of San Tommaso useful for supplying water to the Lagaccio powder factory. After the end of the Dogate on 23 August 1652, he was appointed perpetual procurator, later dean of the Inquisitors of State and, in January 1653, dean of the war magistrate until 1654. In that year he resigned from office to definitively leave public life for religious life, a choice that his father had already taken as an elder entering the Barnabites order. After initial attempts to dissuade him from the action by his sister Vittoria, Agostino Centurione entered the Society of Jesus, carrying out his novitiate inSee also
* Republic of Genoa * Doge of GenoaSources
* Buonadonna, Sergio. ''Rosso doge. I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797.'' 17th-century Doges of Genoa 1584 births 1657 deaths {{Italy-noble-stub