Talk:Republic of Genoa

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Please add a map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.69.139 (talk) 00:15, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Golden Age

Would it be fair to say that the "Golden Age' of Genoa was in the 12th and 13th century?

Unless you went on to detail why so, this would not be an informative statement. You could also discuss the power and energy of Genoa without recourse to a "Golden Age". --Wetman 23:39, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

No. Contrary to the article's current wording, Genoa's golden age (taken by its normal criteria - an identifiable period of increased relative power, wealth, status never attained before or since) came during its period as the bankers to the Habsburgs and Spanish America. On the other hand, the Republic was much less free and democratic by that point after Doria's reforms and it had less territory. So it'd still be arguable. -LlywelynII (talk) 18:16, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Sovereignty

Was the Republic fully sovereign or nominally subject of the Empire? Fornadan (t) 20:05, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure of the precise legalities, but it started out as an Imperial bishopric. The commune finally assumed most authority in the 1090s; Conrad let the city mint its own coins. Actual Imperial influence would've varied depending on whether the Guelf or Ghibellines were in charge and whether the Emperor's army was south of the Alps at the time, but the 1911 says they acknowledged Naples (ie, the Hohenstaufen emperors) and then (after the extinction of that line) the viscount of Milan and then the French. Doria helped the city move out of the French orbit, but I'm not sure how much authority the French actually enjoyed. -LlywelynII (talk) 18:16, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Genoese Commune-ist Period

The Italian wiki has a separate article for it. Could someone please translate it, put it up on its own page, and link it from here; or use this book to give us one? There's not much freely accessible information on the period or a list of the consuls in English. -LlywelynII (talk) 18:16, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

"Regno di Spagna"

Why is Spain the only region depicted as a "kingdom" in the graphic? In 1300 nor in in 1400 there wasn't sucha a kingdom. It could be somehow argued that Spain could exist after marriage of the Catholic kings in late S. XV, but the sovereignity of the respective kingdoms that belonged to the king and the queen was kept at least until late XVIII, in no way the dates depicted in the graphic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.155.76.54 (talk) 14:31, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Holy Roman Empire

Not mentioned once in the article. Srnec (talk) 19:07, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Rise

The presentation of information in the Rise section seems uneven. For example, the single sentence describing Genoa as a maritime republic could be expanded on, and perhaps merged with a later line in the section describing how Genoa became a major naval power. Heliopoptropolis (talk) 21:04, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Republic of Genoa

After reading this article, I was surprised to find no mention of the Black Plague (I think starting around 1347 AD), some have suggested it started with Genoa trading ships from the Black Sea. This became a major issue for the rest of Europe for the next 100 or so years. While I don't think it requires blame, it might have been useful to have a reference to this or other entries that cover this history of Genoa and other aspect related to global trade. It wasn't too long after 1347 this that Genoa lost to Venice, and perhaps it gives some insight into Genoa's change in fortune. DrVALewis (talk) 01:19, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

The article is woefully incomplete. Viriditas (talk) 21:31, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Christopher Columbus did "not" discover the Americas

Christopher Columbus did "not" discover the Americas. Yes, he was from Genoa, but it is a gross misstatement of fact to say that he "discovered" a continent that was inhabited by millions of thriving communities of people. Please correct this harmful and dismissive mis-information in this article. 161.129.230.241 (talk) 18:11, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

discovered in the older (and more literal) sense revealed —Tamfang (talk) 04:59, 17 October 2024 (UTC)