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Title: The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : The Outlook Company (etc.,etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rears, was whollyunder the guidance of his two nephews, the cardinal Antonio and TaddeoBarberini, prefect of Rome. These ambitious relatives were not satisfiedwith the riches which he heaped upon them; and their project of acquiringfor their family the Roman duchies of Castro and Ronciglione, fiefs held ofthe church by the house of Farnese, involved the papacy in a war with
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A CENTURY OF OBSCURITY 493 (1610-1644 A.D.) Parma. Odoardo Farnese, the reigning duke of Parma, had contractedimmense debts to charitable foundations at Rome, of which he neglected topay even the interest. He thus afforded Taddeo Barberini, as prefect ofthat capital, a pretext for summoning him before the apostolic chamber ; andon his contemptuous neglect of the citation, the Barberini obtained an orderfor sequestrating his Roman fiefs. The duke of Parma had recourse toarms for his defence; the pope excommunicated him; and hostilities com-menced between him and Taddeo, who acted as general of the church. Butthis war of the Barberini, as it has been named, the only strictly Italiancontest of the century, produced no decisive result. It was invested with aridiculous character by the cowardice of Taddeo and the papal troops, who,to the number of eighteen thousand, fled before a handful of cavalry underthe duke Odoardo. After this disgraceful check, the Barberini were but toohapp to obtai

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