The third inscription deals again with a defeat of the Venetian fleet, by Luciano Doria in 1379.  It reads as follows:[5] “To the glory of God and the Blessed Mary.  In the year 1379, on the 5th day of May, in the Gulf of the Venetians near Pola, there was a battle of 22 Genoese galleys with 22 galleys of the Venetians, in which were 4075 men-at-arms and many other men from Pola; of which galleys 16 were taken with all that was in them by the noble Lord Luciano Doria, Captain General of the Commune of Genoa, who in the said battle while fighting valiantly met his death.  The sixteen galleys of the Venetians were conducted into Genoa with 2407 captive men.”

The fourth inscription refers to the earlier victory of Oberto Doria over the Pisans.  It is as follows:[6] “In the name of the Holy Trinity, in the year of Our Lord 1284, on the 6th day of August, the high and mighty Lord Oberto Doria, at that time Captain and Admiral of the Commune and of the Genoese people, triumphed in the Pisan waters over the Pisans, taking from them 33 galleys with 7 sunk and all the rest put to flight, and with many dead men left in the waters; and he returned to Genoa with a great multitude of captives, so that 7272 were placed in the prisons.  There was taken Andrea Morosini of Venice, then Podesta and Captain General in war of the Commune of Pisa, with the standard of the Commune, captured by the galleys of Doria and brought to this church with the seal of the Commune, and there was also taken Loto, the son of Count Ugolino, and a great part of the Pisan nobility.”

The fifth inscription refers to the victory of Filippino Doria, nephew to the great Admiral over the Spanish galleys in the Gulf of Salerno, which led Andrea, to the consternation of Genoa, to attack the Pope’s galleys at Civitavecchia.

Within, the church was altered in 1530 by Montorsoli, the Florentine who was brought from Florence by the Admiral.  And there above the high altar hangs his sword, given him by Pope Paul iii, his friend and enemy.  There, too, in the left aisle is the Doria chapel, with a picture of Andrea and his wife kneeling before our Lord.  In the crypt, which was decorated in stucco by Montorsoli, you may see his tomb.

    Questo e quel Doria, che fa dai Pirati
    Sicuro il vostro mar per tutti i lati.

The beautiful cloister contains the statues of Andrea and Giovandrea, broken by the people in 1797.  Close by is the Doria Palace, given by the Republic to Andrea when he refused the office of Doge.  It is decorated with the privileged black and white marble, and bears the inscription, Senat.  Cons.  Andreae de Oria Patriae Liberatori Munus Publicium.

If you return from S. Matteo to the Piazza Deferrari and then follow the Via Carlo Felice (and without some sort of guidance such as this you are like to be lost in the maze of the city) on your way to the beautiful Piazza Fontane Marose, you pass on your left the Palazzo Pallavicini, empty now of all its treasures.