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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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A doge (/ d oʊ dʒ / DOHJ, [1] Italian: [ˈdɔːdʒe]; plural dogi or doges; see below) was an elected lord and head of state in several Italian city-states, notably Venice and Genoa, during the medieval and Renaissance periods. Such states were referred to as "crowned republics". Doges wore a special hat, the Corno ducale and usually ruled ...
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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 ...
Son of Alessandro Giustiniani Longo, doge in the two-year period 1611–1613, and Lelia De Franchi Toso, he was born in the Genoese capital around 1586.On 21 July 1644 Giustiniani was appointed by the Grand Council as the new doge of the Republic of Genoa, the 62nd in biennial succession and the one hundred and seventh in republican history.
For his election, the rules of the new Genoese republican constitution, launched during the Dogate of Giorgio Adorno, which after a special council of eight hundred men sanctioned the regular acclamation of Barnaba Guano as twenty-third doge of the Republic of Genoa, were applied.