Gabriele Adorno

Gabriele Adorno (c. 1320–1383) was the fifth doge of Genoa, a Ghibelline from a Genoese merchant family. Elected doge on 14 March 1363 after Simone Boccanegra's death, he shared offices evenly between Guelfs and Ghibellines and exiled the Boccanegra heirs for good.

With the Visconti pressing on Genoa, he sent his brother Giannotto to Avignon to seek the pope's support. His treaty of 1365 with Peter I of Cyprus opened the way to Genoese rule on the island; Genoa also occupied Soldaia in Crimea and made trade treaties with Aragon and Portugal. Taxes wore down his standing even after he became imperial vicar in 1368.

On 13 August 1370 Domenico Fregoso turned a public assembly against him, and Adorno fled; Fregoso was elected doge that same day. Adorno was later held at Voltaggio and died in 1383.