Raffaele Agostino De Ferrari (Genoa, 20 July 1732 - Genoa, 17 January 1801) was the 180th Doge of the Republic of Genoa.

Biography

On 4 July 1787, the Grand Council elected him to lead the Genoese state, the one hundred and thirty-fifth in two-year succession and the one hundred and eighty in republican history. During his mandate there was the fortunate capture, on 11 August 1788, in the waters in front of the town of Bordighera, of an Algerian Xebec, of the 117 Turkish sailors taken prisoner by the Genoese galleys San Giorgio and Raggio, 50 were killed. The dogal two-year period ended on 4 July 1789.

Raffaele Agostino De Ferrari

Personal life

He was married to Settimia Spinola. His nephew Raffaele de Ferrari was the husband of the Marquise Maria Brignole Sale De Ferrari. Raffaele Agostino De Ferrari died in Genoa in 1801.

Raffaele Agostino De Ferrari

See also

Republic of Genoa

Doge of Genoa

References

18th-century Doges of Genoa

1732 births

1801 deaths

Raffaele Agostino De Ferrari