Cesare Gentile

Cesare Gentile
Cesare Gentile
119th Doge of the Republic of Genoa
	In office; May 10, 1667 – May 10, 1669
Preceded by	Cesare Durazzo
Succeeded by	Francesco Garbarino
Personal details
Born	1614; Genoa, Republic of Genoa
Died	1681; Genoa, Republic of Genoa

Cesare Gentile (1614–1681) was the 119th Doge of the Republic of Genoa and king of Corsica.

Biography

At age 53, on May 10, 1667, the Grand Council elected Gentile as the new doge of Genoa, the seventy-fourth in two-year succession and the nineteenth in republican history. As doge he was also invested with the related biennial office of king of Corsica. He led an almost peaceful and administrative Dogate, except for some disagreements with the Chapter of the Genoa Cathedral, with the Genoese archbishop Giambattista Spinola and with the Inquisitor of the Holy Office. The dogate ceased on May 10, 1669 Cesare Gentile still dealt with public assignments. He died in Genoa in 1681.^[1]^[2]

References

^ "GENTILE, Cesare in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-07-28.
^ Buonadonna, Sergio. Rosso doge. The Doges of the Republic of Genoa from 1339 to 1797 (in Italian). De Ferrari.