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Scienze della comunicazione Università degli Studi di TeramoPhD Program in Historical studies
Scienze della comunicazione Università degli Studi di TeramoPhD Program in Historical studies

The Republic of Genoa

A free city in the eleventh century in the Middle Ages, the Republic of Genoa was present throughout the Mediterranean as one of the Italian naval powers. It came to occupy the whole of Liguria, part of Piedmont, Corsica and Sardinia. In the era of Charles V it entered into an alliance with the Spanish Monarchy that was to last until the seventeenth century, when the relationship deteriorated, partly due to the decline of the Habsburg Monarchy. Many families of powerful merchant-bankers originated in Genoa, able to guarantee loans of large sums of money to the Iberian sovereigns: among them there were the Spinola, Doria, Centurione, Serra and Giustiniani families. Conquered by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797, the Republic of Genoa was officially incorporated, at the Congress of Vienna (1815), into the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Read more:

  • A. Pacini, La Genova di Andrea Doria nell’impero di Carlo V, Firenze 1999.
  • I. Pulido Bueno, Génova en la trayectoria histórica de España: del auxilio militar a la preminencia económica, ss. XI-SVIII. Grimaldi, Spínola y Centurión en la empresa de la Reconquista, la expansión ultramarina y el sostenimiento del imperio español, Huelva 2013.