[DOC] [TLE] Simone Boccanegra - Wikipedia [PAR] Simone Boccanegra was the first Doge of Genoa. He became doge in 1339, but 
... With the old patriciate excluded from power, a new class of mercantile houses 
arose: Adorno, Guarco, Fregoso, and Montaldo. [DOC] [TLE] Simon Boccanegra - Wikipedia [PAR] Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi 
to an Italian ... Simon Boccanegra was first performed at Teatro La Fenice in 
Venice on 12 March 1857. ... But a year later, when overseeing a revival of La 
traviata at La Fenice, he agreed to a new opera for that house for the 1856/7 
season,... [DOC] [TLE] Once-proud city seeks a return to glory days: Patricia Clough finds ... [PAR] Nov 18, 1993 ... THE ONCE-PROUD city is in a tail-spin. ... It is 1339 and the man they elect is 
Simone Boccanegra, the first Doge of Genoa and the inaugurator of a ... Its 500th 
anniversary celebrations of Columbus's first voyage to the New World ... wares, 
belongings and homes because of the lack of efficient drainage and... [DOC] [TLE] City Walk: Genoa Famous Landmarks, Genoa, Italy - GPSmyCity [PAR] The home of Christopher Columbus in Genoa is the building in which young ... in 
1260 by Guglielmo Boccanegra, uncle of Simone Boccanegra, the first Doge of... [DOC] [TLE] Pacific Opera Victoria: 2016/2017 Season: Simon Boccanegra [PAR] Pacific Opera Victoria's 2016-2017 Season: Simon Boccanegra, The Magic Flute, 
... Simon Boccanegra, first Doge of Venice: Todd Thomas; Jacopo Fiesco, ... 
years earlier, when he first came to power in the plague-ridden city of Genoa . ... 
Simon and plots with Pietro to abduct Amelia and hide her in the home of 
Lorenzino. [DOC] [TLE] Simone Boccanegra - WikiVisually [PAR] Feb 15, 2016 ... The first doge of Genoa, Simone Boccanegra, whose name is kept alive by ... 
Genoa  Portrait of Christopher Columbus by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio .... The city is 
also home of the University of Pisa, which has a history going back... [DOC] [TLE] Simone Boccanegra - WikiVisually [PAR] Genova  Portrait of Christopher Columbus by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio ... The first 
doge of Genoa, Simone Boccanegra, whose name is kept alive by Verdi's .... The 
city is also home of the University of Pisa, which has a history going back to the... [DOC] [TLE] simon boccanegra - Metropolitan Opera [PAR] Apr 16, 2016 ... Amelia is in reality Maria Boccanegra, the doge's daughter and. Fiesco's .... 
Simon Boccanegra (first performed in Venice in 1857), Verdi began to spend his 
winters in ... that the city of Genoa gave birth to Christopher Columbus. ... She 
had been taken to a home for orphans after her nurse's death and then. [DOC] [TLE] Genoa's sunny ways - Washington Times [PAR] Aug 5, 2005 ... First responders work near the scene of an explosion in Manhattan&#39;s 
Chelsea ... Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, his opera about the first doge of Genoa. 
... The Dorias also had palaces at other sites in the city. ... It is more intact than 
what remains of a building being passed off as Columbus' home. [DOC] [TLE] History of Genoa - Mother Earth Travel [PAR] This was a city of two faces, which looks both inland and towards the sea. ... The 
historic centre was divided into eight districts and the houses had to ... Even the 
election in 1339 of the first doge, Simon Boccanegra, did nothing to placate the 
struggles. ... and sculptors, the Genoan Christopher Columbus discovered 
America. [DOC] [TLE] An Opera Lover's Guide to Genoa, Italy - WQXR [PAR] May 10, 2011 ... It was the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. ... There is the largest medieval 
quarter of any city in Europe and ... Verdi first went to Genoa in December 1840 
to stage his early opera Oberto, which opened January 9, 1841. ... and private 
lives of the Doge Simone Boccanegra and everyone in his sphere. [DOC] [TLE] WHAT'S DOING IN; Genoa - The New York Times [PAR] Feb 8, 2004 ... Verdi's '

Question: Simone Boccanegra was the first doge of this city, home to Columbus
Answer: Genoa