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place his native city once more under French domination. But he was dissatisfied with his treatment at the hands of Francis, who was mean about See also:

PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment, and he resented the king's behaviour in connexion with See also:

SAVONA

Savona, which he delayed to See also:

hand back to the Genoese as he had promised; consequently on the expiry of Doria's See also:

contract we find him in the service of the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

Charles V. (1528). He ordered his See also:

NEPHEW

nephew Filippino, who was then blockading See also:

Naples in See also:

CONCERT (through the French from Lat. con-, with, and certare, to strive)

concert with a French See also:

army, to withdraw, and sailed for Genoa, where, with the help of some leading citizens, he expelled the French once more and re-established the See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic under imperial See also:

PROTECTION

protection. He reformed the constitution in an aristocratic sense, most of the See also:

NOBILITY

nobility being Imperialists, and put an end to the factions which divided the city. He refused the lordship of Genoa and even the dogeship, but accepted the position of perpetual See also:

CENSOR (from Lat. censere, assess, estimate; in Gr. rt s ris)

censor, and exercised predominant See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence in the See also:

COUNCILS

councils of the republic until his See also:

DEATH

death.

He was given two palaces, many privileges, and the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Liberator et See also:

PATER, WALTER HORATIO (1839-1894)

Pater Patriae. As imperial admiral he commanded several expeditions against the Turks, capturing See also:

CORONA (Lat. for " crown ")

Corona and See also:

PATRAS (Gr. Patrai)

Patras, and co-operating with the emperor himself in the See also:

CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of See also:

TUNIS

Tunis (1535). Charles found him an invaluable ally in the See also:

WARS

wars with Francis, and through him extended his domination over the whole of See also:

Italy. Doria's defeat by the Turks at See also:

PREVEZA, or PREVESA

Preveza in 1538 was said to be not in-voluntary, and designed to spite the Venetians whom he detested. He accompanied Charles on the See also:

ill-fated Algerian expedition of 1541, of which he disapproved, and by his ability just saved the whole force from See also:

COMPLETE

complete disaster. For the next five years he continued to serve the emperor in various wars, in which he was generally successful and always active, although now over seventy years old; there was hardly an important event in See also:

EUROPE

Europe in which he had not some See also:

SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share. After the See also:

peace of Crepy between Francis and Charles in 1544 he hoped to end his days in quiet. But his See also:

GREAT

great See also:

WEALTH

wealth and See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, as well as the arrogance of his nephew and See also:

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir Giannettino Doria, made him many enemies, and in 1547 the See also:

FIESCO (DE' FIESCIII), GIOVANNI LUIGI (c. 1523–1547)

Fiesco See also:

CONSPIRACY (from Lat. conspirare, literally to breathe together, to agree, combine, and especially to form a secret plot)

conspiracy to upset the power of his See also:

house took place. Giannettino was murdered, but the conspirators were defeated, and Andrea showed great vindictiveness in punishing them. Many of their fiefs he seized for himself, and he was implicated in the See also:

MURDER

murder of See also:

PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

Pier See also:

LUIGI

Luigi See also:

Farnese, See also:

DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

PARMA

Parma (see FARNESE), who had helped Fiesco. Other conspiracies followed, of which the most important was that of Giulio Cibo (1548), but all failed. Although Doria was ambitious and harsh, he was a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good patriot and successfully opposed the emperor Charles's repeated attempts to have a citadel built in Genoa and garrisoned by Spaniards; neither blandishments nor threats could win him over to the See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme.

Nor did age lessen his See also:

ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy, for in 1550, when eighty-four years old, he again put to See also:

sea to punish the raids of his old enemies the Barbary pirates, but with no great success. War between See also:

France and the See also:

EMPIRE

Empire having broken out once more, the French seized Corsica, then administered by the Genoese See also:

BANK

Bank of St See also:

George; Doria was again summoned, and he spent two years (1553–1555) in the island425 fighting the French with varying fortune. He returned to Genoa for good in 1555, and being very old and infirm he gave over the command of the galleys to his great-nephew Giovanni Andrea Doria, who conducted an expedition against See also:

Tripoli, but proved even more unsuccessful than his See also:

UNCLE

uncle had been at See also:

ALGIERS (Fr. Alger, Arab. Jezair, i.e. The Islands)

Algiers, barely escaping with his See also:

LIFE

life. Andrea Doria died on the 25th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 156o, leaving his estates to Giovanni Andrea. The family of Doria-Pamphilii-Landi (q.v.) is descended from him and bears his title of See also:

prince of See also:

MELFI

Melfi. Doria was a See also:

man of indomitable energy and a great admiral. If he appears unscrupulous and even treacherous he did but conform to the See also:

STANDARDS

standards of 16th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century Italy.

End of Article: DORIA, ANDREA (1466-156o)

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