Gian Carlo Pallavicino (Genoa, 1722 - Genoa, 1794) was the 179th

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of the

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Pallavicino rose to dogal power with the election of 6 June 1785 where the members of the Grand Council preferred the candidacy of Gian Carlo Pallavicino, representative of that liberal faction that aimed to modernize the institutional structures of the Republic of Genoa, compared to other candidates and former doges

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. In its two-year mandate, the one hundred and thirty-fourth in two-year succession and the one hundred and seventy-ninth in republican history, the first economic and literary society was established in Genoa, born in 1786 to promote agricultural, trade and art activities; from 1791 similar companies were founded in

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, in

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. His Dogate ceased on June 6, 1787. Gian Carlo Pallavicino died in Genoa during 1794.

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18th-century Doges of Genoa 1722 births 1794 deaths {{Italy-noble-stub

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