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DK. Renaissance. Palazzi. In Genoa, the 16th and 17th centuries were a boom period – referred to as the“Genoese Century”– during which a handful of powerful families financed the construction ofnumerous grand palaces. A figure of particular importance in Genoese Renaissance history was Andrea Doria ( 1468–1560), admiral and patron ofthe arts, who built the magnificent Palazzzo Doria Pamphilj (see pp82–3).The laying ofVia Garibaldi, or“La Strada Nuova”, in the mid 16th ...