Domenico Canevaro (Genoa, 5 August 1683Genoa, 15 February 1745) was the 156th

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of the

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and king of Corsica.

Biography

Canevaro was appointed with a considerable majority of votes in the election to the Doge's office of 20 February 1742, the one hundred and eleventh in biennial succession and the one hundred and fifty-sixth in republican history. As doge he was also invested with the related biennial office of king of Corsica. At his coronation in the

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, on 7 July 1742, the ceremony was officiated by Monsignor Agostino Saluzzo, bishop of the Diocese of Mariana and Accia. At the end of the two-year period on 20 February 1744, the former doge retired to private life. Newly elected deputy for maritime affairs, he died in Genoa on 15 February 1745.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Canevaro, Domenico 18th-century Doges of Genoa 1683 births 1745 deaths

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