DO'RIA, ANDREA, a noble Genoese, and one of the greatest admirals of his age. was b. at Oneglia in 1468. At an early age, he took service in the guard of the pope, Inno cent VIII., and afterwards distinguished himself in the battles which the _Milanese and the French fought against Genoa and the kings of Aragon. It was D. who, in 1503, after a short campaign, crushed the rebellion in Corsica. When Genoa, in 1513, got rid of the French domination, D. was appointed capt.gen. of the galleys, in which capacity he carried on a war of extermination against the dangerous swarms of African pirates who infested the Mediterranean. During the war between Francis I., king of France, and Charles V., emperor of Germany, and king of Spain, D. commanded the French fleet, reinforced by his own galleys, and inflicted everywhere severe losses upon the enemy. After the defeat of Francis I. near Pavia, D. accepted the command of the papal fleet; but upon the return of the king from his captivity, entered once more the French service, with the title of high-admiral of the Levant. He blockaded Genoa, for having espoused the cause of the emperor, and putting to flight the party of the Adorni, took the town. On finding the independence of his country threatened by the French,
D. with his whole force went over to the emperor, and by so doing hastened the deliver ance of Italy from French domination. In 1529, D. entered Genoa without resistance, and refusing the title of sovereign, which was offered by the emperor, established there a popular form of government, which remained in vigor up to the end of the republic. The grateful country decreed him the title of " Father of Peace;" and the emperor, in whose service D. continued, conferred upon him the order of the golden fleece, together with the principality of Melfi. In 1532, D. won a decisive victory over the Turks near Patras, and the conquest of Tunis (1535) was chiefly his work. He took part in the joint expedition against the Turks under Barbarossa in 1539, and in another against Algiers in 1541, where he lost 11 of his own galleys. The tranquillity of his last years was disturbed by the conspiracy of Fiesehi. D. took fierce revenge upon the con spirators for the death of his nephew Gianettino. D. died without offspring, in 1560, at Genoa, in his 93d year.