Adorno family

Adorno family

The Adorno family was an illustrious patrician family in Genoa, Italy, of the Ghibelline party, several of whom were Doges of the republic. The first of these, Gabriele Adorno, is also the tenor role in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra.

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*Doge of Genoa


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