Giannotto Lomellini (Genoa, 1519 – Genoa, 1574) was the 68th Doge of the

Republic of Genoa The Republic of Genoa ( lij, Repúbrica de Zêna ; it, Repubblica di Genova; la, Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the 11th century to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast. During the Lat ...

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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

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, 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. More fortunate and important political strategy was the submission of

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after the independence and anti-Genoese unrest started by the leader

Sampiero Corso Sampiero Corso ( co, Sampieru Corsu, born Sampiero da Bastelica; 1498 – 17 January 1567) was a Corsican soldier, father of the Marshal of France Alphonse d'Ornano. Early career Born in Bastelica as a common man (although his mother was of th ...

; it was the same son of Sampiero, Alfonso, returning from France to negotiate the surrender with the Republic. 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 The church of the Santissima Annunziata in Sturla ( it, Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata di Sturla) is a Roman Catholic church of the neighbourhood of Sturla, in the city of Genoa, in the Province of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy. The ...

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16th-century Doges of Genoa 1519 births 1574 deaths {{Italy-politician-stub

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