Antoniotto II Adorno

Who is Antoniotto II Adorno?

Antoniotto II Adorno was Doge of Genoa from 1522 to 1527.

An enemy of doge Giano II di Campofregoso, in 1512 he allied with King Louis XII of France in the course of the Italian Wars between France and Spain, and attacked Genoa. The defeat suffered by the French at Novara forced him to take refuge in Milan. Antoniotto tried two further attacks against Genoa in 1513 and 1514, both without success.

When the new doge, Ottaviano di Campofregoso, during the French occupation of Lombardy, allied with Francis I of France, Antoniotto switched to the Spanish party. The Spanish victory at the battle of Bicocca granted him the position of doge. In the same year he had the port of Savona destroyed in retaliation for their rebellion against the Republic of Genoa. He held the title, with little popular support, for five years until, attacked by the French general Odet de Foix and by Andrea Doria, he left Genoa.

He retired to Milan, where he died in 1528.