The Genoese banker Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, for instance, himself raised and led an army that fought in the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands in the early 17th century.
Pred vojno za Chioggio, ki je trajala od leta 1379 do 1381, so imeli Genovežani pomorsko premoč, ki je bila vir njihove moči in trdnega položaja v severni Italiji.