Agostino Pinelli Ardimenti

Agostino Pinelli Ardimenti
59th Doge of the Republic of Genoa
In office
4 January 1555 – 4 January 1557
Preceded byGiacomo Promontorio
Succeeded byPietro Giovanni Chiavica Cibo
Personal details
Born1492
Genoa, Republic of Genoa
Died1566
Genoa, Republic of Genoa

Agostino Pinelli Ardimenti (Genoa, 1492 - Genoa, 1566) was the 59th Doge of the Republic of Genoa.

Biography

Agostino Ardimenti was elected to the dogal title on 4 January 1555, the fourteenth in two-year succession and the ninety-ninth in republican history. After his mandate ended on 4 January 1557 he was appointed perpetual procurator by the supreme syndicators. Ardimenti died in Genoa in an attack in 1566, assassinated for an exchange of person by an assassin who had the task of killing the doge Luca Spinola. The instigator of the murder was Giovanni Stefano Lercari, son of the doge Lercari, as revenge against Luca Spinola for the alleged offenses suffered by his father after a speech in the Senate.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Buonadonna, Sergio. Rosso doge. I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797 (in Italian). De Ferrari.