DORIA, Andrea, Genoese admiral: b. Oneglia, 30 Nov. 1468; d. Genoa, 25 Nov. 1560. He entered the Pope's guards and afterward passed into the service of the Duke of Calabria, who commanded in Italy for the king of Aragon. He was rapidly promoted, and Al phonso II gave him a command against Ludo vico Sforza, Duke of Milan. When the French had left Italy the Genoese entrusted the re construction of their fleet to Doria. He was first employed in suppressing the Barbary pirates, from whom he captured a large booty, but was soon after exiled, and entered the service of Francis I, who named him admiral of the French galleys. Displeased with some demands of the French king, who in answer to his complaints deposed him from his command, he entered the service of Charles V in 1528. His defection proved disastrous to the French cause in Italy. He occupied Genoa without resistance on 12 Sept. 1528, and his further successes contributed to the re-establishment of peace. He re-established order in Genoa and organized the government on a new basis, which became permanent during the independ ence of the republic. Charles bestowed on him the highest honors and received in exchange the most important services. In 1532 he took
Koron and Patras, in Greece, from the Turks, and in 1535 assisted in the capture of Tunis. He assisted next year in a descent on Provence, took Toulon and ravaged the coasts of the Gulf of Lyons. The emperor and the king of France had afterward an interview, which has become historical, on board his galley, with a view to the conclusion of peace. This interview took place at Aigues-Mortes in July 1538. In 1547 he narrowly escaped assassination in a con spiracy raised in Genoa by the Fieschi. His nephew was killed in this conspiracy, which excited him to some severities approaching to the barbarity of earlier times. Doria has been accused, probably with justice, of selling his sword too freely, and to too many opposing interests; but his services to his country have earned him the titles of father and liberator, which were conferred on him, together with the censorship for life, by the Genoese Senate in 1528. Consult Guerazzi, 'Vita di Andrea Doria> (Milan 1874) ; Petit, 'Andre Doria' (Paris 1887).