Agostino Pallavicini
{{Short description|Doge of the Republic of Genoa and king of Corsica}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Anthony van Dyck - Portrait of Agostino Pallavicini - Google Art Project.jpg
| caption = Portrait by Anthony van Dyck
| order = 103rd Doge of the Republic of Genoa
| term_start1 = July 13, 1637
| term_end1 = July 13, 1639
| predecessor1 = Giovanni Francesco I Brignole Sale
| successor1 = Giovanni Battista Durazzo
| birth_date = 1577
| birth_place = Genoa, Republic of Genoa
| death_date = 1649
| death_place = Genoa, Republic of Genoa
}}
Agostino Pallavicini (Genoa, 1577{{spnd}}Genoa, 1649) was the 103rd Doge of the Republic of Genoa and king of Corsica.
Biography
For the Republic of Genoa he held various institutional positions, including Doge of the Republic of Genoa, governor of Corsica, also called King, in the period between 1606 and 1608 and the position of protector of Bank of Saint George in 1625.{{Cite book|last=Buonadonna|first=Sergio|title=Rosso doge. I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797|publisher=De Ferrari|language=it}}
On 13 July 1637 he was invested by the Grand Council of the highest customs office: the fifty-eighth in two-year succession and the one hundred and third in republican history. As doge he was also invested with the biennial office of King of Corsica and was the first to bear that title.{{cite web |title=Pallavicini, Agostino |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/agostino-pallavicini/ |website=treccani.it |publisher=Enciclopedia Treccani |access-date=26 July 2020}}{{cite book|author=Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly|title=Europa Triumphans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VY1rRlRWDq4C&pg=PA240|access-date=26 July 2020|date=2010|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-9638-4|page=240}} Under his command, construction began on the Lighthouse of Genoa pier.
Appointed perpetual procurator at the end of his mandate, on 13 July 1639, he died in Genoa during 1649. His body was buried inside the Basilica of San Siro.
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