Giannotto Lomellini

Giannotto Lomellini
68th Doge of the Republic of Genoa
In office October 10, 1571 –October 10, 1573
Preceded by	Paolo Giustiniani Moneglia
Succeeded by	Giacomo Grimaldi Durazzo
Personal details
Born	1519 Genoa, Republic of Genoa
Died	1574 Genoa, Republic of Genoa

Giannotto Lomellini (Genoa, 1519 - Genoa, 1574) was the 68th Doge of the Republic of Genoa.

Biography

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 Matteo Senarega, 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. ^{[1] [2]}

More fortunate and important political strategy was the submission of Corsica after the independence and anti-Genoese unrest started by the leader Sampiero Corso; it was the same son of Sampiero, Alfonso, returning from France to negotiate the surrender with the Republic. ^[1]

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. ^[1]

See also

• Republic of Genoa
• Doge of Genoa

References

1. Buonadonna, Sergio. Rosso doge. I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797 (in Italian). De Ferrari.
2. Varese, Carlo (1835). Storia della repubblica di Genova, dalla sua origine sino al 1814. Genoa: Yves Gravier. p. 95. Retrieved 26 July 2020.