Antoniotto Botta Adorno

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Antoniotto Adorno
Born1688
Castelletto di Branduzzo, Milan
Died29 December 1774(1774-12-29) (aged 63–64)
Torre d'Isola, Milan
Buried
Pavia, Lombardy, Italy
AllegianceAustria
Battles/warsAustro-Turkish War (1716–1718)
7th Siege of Belgrade

War of the Austrian Succession

Battle of Piacenza
Battle of Rottofreddo
4th Siege of Genoa

Antoniotto Botta Adorno, also Anton Otto Marchese Botta d'Adorno[1] (1688 - 29 December 1774) was a high officer of the Habsburg monarchy and a plenipotentiary of the Austrian Netherlands.

Biography

He was born in Branduzzo, Lombardy, to a noble family from Genoa whose members included seven doges of that city. His mother had an alleged love affair with King Philip V of Spain. A year after his birth his father, accused of an attempted coup, was expelled from the Republic of Genoa. In 1700, Antoniotto's father died, and, as the family fiefs went to his elder brother Alessandro, he chose a military career.

He distinguished himself during the

Battle of Rottofredo
.

On 7 September the same year, after occupying Genoa, he became Austrian governor of the city. He taxed Genoa so hard (Ai Genovesi non lascerò altro che gli occhi per piangere; I will leave the Genoese only their eyes to weep), that he was chased on 5 December by a popular revolt led by Balilla. Having lost the city, he was relieved of all military commands for the rest of the war.

In 1749, a year after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, he became plenipotentiary of the Austrian Netherlands under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. He reformed the army and tried to improve the conditions of the country.

Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Antoniotto Botta Adorno at the court of Tsarina Anna Ivanovna, Pavia, Palazzo Botta Adorno

Four years later, in 1753, he stepped down from his office in the Austrian Netherlands.

Count Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl became his successor as minister plenipotentiary in Brussels. Adorno returned to Italy and became prime minister of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
.

In 1762, he was appointed as ambassador at

Catherine II of Russia's court. Three years later, he became regent of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany after the death of emperor Francis I
.

After his assignment in Tuscany, he returned to Pavia, where, thanks to the large patrimony he had accumulated, he had his family's palace in the city (Palazzo Botta Adorno) enlarged and had a villa built in Torre d'Isola in the Pavia countryside.[2] He died at Torre d'Isola, near Pavia, in 1774. He was buried in the Church of Santi Gervasio e Protasio in Pavia.[3]

References

  • Donaver, Federico (1967). Storia di Genova. Renzo Tolozzi Editore.

Notes

  1. ^ Botta d'Adorno, Anton, at deutsche-biographie.de
  2. ISBN 9788846721853
    .
  3. ISBN 9788898567485
    .
Preceded by
Authorized minister
in the Austrian Netherlands

(plenipotentiary)
1747–1753 		Succeeded by
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