Antoniotto II Adorno

When the new doge, Ottaviano di Campofregoso, during the French occupation of Lombardy (September 1515), allied with Francis I of France, Antoniotto switched to the Spanish party.

The Spanish victory at the battle of Bicocca (1522) granted him the position of doge.

In the same year he had the port of Savona destroyed in retaliation for their rebellion against the Republic of Genoa.

He held the title, with little popular support, for five years until, attacked by the French general Odet de Foix and by Andrea Doria, he left Genoa.

He is a character in the opera Die Gezeichneten (first performed 1918) by Austrian composer Franz Schreker.