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The Doge of Genoa (/ d oʊ dʒ / DOHJ) [a] was the head of state of the Republic of Genoa, a city-state and soon afterwards a maritime republic, from 1339 until the state's extinction in 1797. Originally elected for life, after 1528 the Doges were elected for terms of two years. [ 1 ]
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His dogal mandate was marked by the opening in Genoa of the new Via Giulia (today's Via XX Settembre) and the prohibition of the "seminary game", linked to the extraction of the senators of the Republic. After the biennium ended on 4 July 1644, no further details of Giovanni Battista Lercari's post-dogato life are known. He died in Genoa in 1657.
The family, extremely wealthy, descendant of the Admiral Lamba Doria, was made up of three male children, among them Nicolò Doria who was doge of Genoa in the biennium 1579-1581, and five sisters. He was the third member of the family to hold the highest dogal position after his older brother and uncle Giovanni Battista Doria in the two years ...
Antoniotto Adorno (1340-1398), the 6th Doge of the Republic of Genoa. Giorgio Adorno (1350-1430), the 17th Doge of the Republic of Genoa. Raffaele Adorno (1375-1458), the 29th Doge of the Republic of Genoa. Barnaba Adorno (1385-1459), the 30th Doge of the Republic of Genoa. Prospero Adorno (1428-1486), the 34th Doge of the Republic of Genoa.
According to the writings of the historians of the time, Ambrogio Di Negro's dogato was not easy for the continuous noble struggles, made of crime, and internal political problems, so much so that several times the Genoese government was called to revise and reform criminal justice; maneuvers that then, in fact, were minimally implemented or with not really significant results.
A state of tension which soon also aroused the concerns of the Genoese people and of the institutions so much so that, in view of an increasingly possible French attack, in May 1684 the doge Francesco Maria Imperiale Lercari arranged for the birth of a "war junta" composed by eight trusted members, chaired by him, as well as a new defense of ...
Member of the powerful Doria family, he was the son of Paolo Doria and Tommasina Grimaldi.The appointment in 1621 to the Dogate, the forty-ninth in biennial succession and the ninety-fourth in Genoese republican history, was aroused by the sudden brain stroke that led the new doge Ambrogio Doria to death, in Genoa, on 12 June that year.