Stefano Lomellini

Stefano Lomellini (Genoa, 1683 – Genoa, 1753) was the 161st Doge of the Republic of Genoa.

Stefano Lomellini
161st Doge of the Republic of Genoa
In office
March 28, 1752 – June 7, 1752
Preceded byAgostino Viale
Succeeded byGiovanni Battista Grimaldi
Personal details
Born1683
Genoa, Republic of Genoa
Died1753
Genoa, Republic of Genoa

Biography

Lomellini was known as a doge "out of obligation", since he never wanted to be the doge of the Republic. Just three months after his appointment he reformulated the same request for exemption, that he had already done when he was elected, but this time citing health problems and, having obtained a favorable response, and after payment for the exemption of 30,000 Genoese pounds, he was able to freely abdicate on 7 June 1752, an episode that has not happened since 1625 when doge Federico De Franchi Toso, following the outbreak of hostilities with the Piedmontese, preferred to resign to anticipate the customs elections. Consequently, he left political life to embrace religious life by becoming a priest. A very short, and above all never accepted, dogate, that of Doge Lomellini that fate would in any case have brought down early, a few months after his abdication, the nobleman died in Genoa in the early months of 1753.[1]

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See also

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