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	AllRefer.com - Olivares, Gaspar de GuzmAn, conde-duque de (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Olivares, Gaspar de GuzmAn, conde-duque de, Spanish And Portuguese History, Biographies
		Olivares, Gaspar de GuzmAn, conde-duque de[gAspAr´ dA gOOthmAn´ kOn´dA-dOO´kA dA OlEvA´rAs] Pronunciation Key, 1587–1645, Spanish statesman.
		Olivares was a patron of the arts and literature and encouraged the painters Rubens, VelAzquez, and Murillo and the writers Lope de Vega and Quevedo y Villegas.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Olivares.html (332 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search View - Spain
		During the 16th century the University of Alcalá (founded in Alcalá de Henares in 1510 and moved to Madrid as the University of Madrid in 1836) was famous for its multilingual, parallel translations of the Bible.
		Important Spanish educators of that period include Juan de Huarte, a pioneer in the application of psychology to education; the humanist and philosopher Juan Luis Vives, who interpreted new ideas on education and, in particular, advocated the education of women; and St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.
		Olivares was ousted, but the wars and revolutions his policies had helped engender haunted Spain for another three decades.
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	History of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Much of the policy was conducted by the minister Gaspar de Guzmán, Conde de Olivares.
		Under the rule of Carlos III and his ministers, Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache and José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca, Spain embarked on a program of enlightened despotism that brought Spain a new prosperity in the middle of the eighteenth century.
		Mistreatment of the Moorish population in Spanish Morocco led to an uprising and the loss of all North African possessions except for the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in 1921.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Spain (6174 words)

	PHILIP IV. (Jewish Encyclopedia) - BibleWiki
		He delegated the regulation of affairs of state to his favorite, D. Gaspar Guzman, Count de Olivares, whom he made a duke and his prime minister.
		In spite of the oppositionof the tribunal of the Inquisition, the all-powerful De Olivares succeeded in winning over the majority of the city council, several important divines, and a not inconsiderable number of inquisitors, to favor his plan.
		In order to prevent this the grand inquisitor, Cardinal de Santa Balbina, made earnest remonstrances to the king, telling him the Church was in danger and the state treasury was threatened with impoverishment.
	bible.tmtm.com /wiki/PHILIP_IV._(Jewish_Encyclopedia) (338 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Spain
		The highest peaks are the Pico de Aneto (3,404 m/11,168 ft) in the Pyrenees and Mulhacén (3,477 m/11,407 ft) in the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain.
		During the 16th century the University of Alcalá (founded in Alcalá de Henares in 1508 and moved to Madrid as the University of Madrid in 1836) was famous for its multilingual, parallel translations of the Bible.
		Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship was followed by a remarkable experiment with democracy in the 1930s that was suppressed by the Spanish Civil War.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761575057__1/Spain.html (17501 words)

	Count-Duke of Olivares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Olivares' father, Don Enrique de Guzmán, was the Spanish ambassador to Rome.
		As second-born son of an aristocratic family, Don Gaspar studied for the priesthood, obtaining a degree from the University of Salamanca in law, theology, and the arts (1601-04).
		His moves toward centralizing power in the hands of the king and his ministers were partly responsible for the revolts of the Catalans and the Portuguese, which began in 1640, and for an abortive conspiracy to form a separate Andalusian kingdom (1641).
	www.wga.hu /tours/spain/olivares.html (528 words)

	Olivares Omar Olivares Profile From Baseballlibrary.com, The Most Comprehensive Baseball History Encyclope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Count-Duke of Olivares (1621-1643) Olivares was born in Rome in 1587 to Spanish nobility political and economic decline.
		Descendants of Domingo Olivares (O522Ag) and Gertrudis Costa (O523Ag) 1 Domingo Olivares.
		OLIVARES, GASPAR DE GUZMAN, count of Olivares and duke of San Lucar (1587-1645), Spanish royal favorite and minister, was born in Rome, where his father was Spanish ambassador, on the 6th of January 1587.
	www.99hosted.com /names13700.html (424 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Spain
		Ferdinand and his wife Isabella of Castile Ferdinand II (Fernando de AragÃ³n in Spanish and Ferran dAragÃ³ in Catalan), nicknamed the Catholic (March 10, 1452 â€“ June 23, 1516) was king of Aragon, Castile, Sicily, Naples, Valencia, Sardinia and Navarre and Count of Barcelona.
		Felipe II died in 1598, and was succeeded by his son Felipe III of Spain, in whose reign a ten year truce with the Dutch was overshadowed in 1618 by Spain's involvement in the European-wide Thirty Years' War.
		Equestrian portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares Gaspar de GuzmÃ¡n y Pimentel, Count of Olivares and Duke of San LÃºcar (January 6, 1587 - July 22, 1645), was a Spanish royal favourite and minister.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Spain (11780 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Spain
		In September 1923 General Miguel Primo de Rivera, Barcelona’s military governor, led a coup d’état that gave vent to widespread disillusionment with the parliamentary regime.
		In 1925 the military directorate was abolished, and Primo de Rivera appointed a civilian government, which he led as prime minister.
		Primo de Rivera became increasingly unpopular with the onset of the worldwide depression in 1929.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761575057___40/Spain.html (18298 words)

	Efemerides Enero
		Como ampliación de la Pragmática del año anterior, se decreta por Felipe II que los musulmanes deberán entregar a sus hijos en edades comprendidas entre 3 y 15 años, a las autoridades eclesiásticas para la enseñanza de la religión cristiana y la lengua castellana.
		Nace en Roma, Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, conde-duque de Olivares.
		De Morente puede decirse sin tibiezas que representa el riesgo y la ausencia total de adscripción a tal o cual estilo; y es así por voluntad expresa del cantaor, para quien el flamenco es algo más que Andalucía y el cante, trabajo e inspiración que debe apoyarse en la ortodoxia y desarrollarla.
	www.todohistoria.com /andalucia/efemenero.htm (10574 words)

	LATIN AMERICAN MSS.--PERU
		Jose Eusebio de Llano y Zapata, author of Memorias historico-physicas, critico-apologeticas, de la America Meridional, mentions in a letter to Pedro Jose Bravo de Lagunas y Castilla his progress in writing this work and his ideas for two schools for Lima, one dedicated specifically to the study of mineralogy.
		The campaign of Jose de San Martin and his Liberating Army of the Andes is represented in great detail from the crossing of the Andes into Chile to the occupation of Lima in 1821.
		In addition to the extensive military reports and correspondence from both sides, a sense of the quotidian effects of these events may be gathered from the civilian reactions contained in the correspondence of the period.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/latinamper.html (1800 words)

	History of Spain - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Much of the policy was conducted by the minister Gaspar de Guzman, conde de Olivares.
		Mistreatment of the Moorish population in Morocco led to an uprising and the loss of all North African possessions except for the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in 1921.
		In order to avoid accountability, the king Alfonso XIII decided to support the dictatorship of general Miguel Primo de Rivera.
	open-encyclopedia.com /History_of_Spain (3913 words)

	"O" Famous People
		Ochoa, Juan de (1864-99) Novelist and short-story writer, born in Avilés, Asturias...
		Olivares, Gaspar de Guzman (y Pimental), conde-duque de (Count-Duke of) (1587-1645) Spanish nobleman, born in Rome, Italy...
		Ortiz de Zúñiga y de Alcázar, Diego (1633-80) Historian, born in Sevilla, SW Spain.
	www.jonathanselby.com /Ofam (3905 words)

	Olivares -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Olivares, Spain, a municipality in (A city in southwestern Spain; a major port and cultural center; the capital of bullfighting in Spain) Seville
		(additional info and facts about Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares) Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, a seventeenth-century (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish statesman
		Olivares de Júcar, Spain, a municipality in (additional info and facts about Cuenca) Cuenca
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Ol/Olivares.htm (76 words)

	OSBORN 17TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS (FOLIO)
		50-58"The Act and Deed of the voluntary and free submission of the Chief Sachim and the rest of the Princes with the whole People of the Nanyganzetts unto the government..." 1644, with a letter from Sachim's trustees and a remonstrance from them about their dispute with some of the colonists of Narragansett Bay, 1661-62; p.
		Felipe IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665 [Letter to Gaspar de Guzman, Conde-duque de Olivares (1587-1645) on the marriage negotiations with the Prince of Wales, 1622 Nov 5] 2 p.
		Olivares, Gaspar de Guzman, Conde-duque de, 1587-1645 [Letter to Felipe IV, King of Spain, about the marriage alliance with England, 1622 Nov 8] 5 p.
	webtext.library.yale.edu /beinflat/osborn.fbshelf.htm (16717 words)

	History of Spain -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Much of the policy was conducted by the minister (additional info and facts about Gaspar de Guzman, conde de Olivares) Gaspar de Guzman, conde de Olivares.
		The reforming spirit of Charles III was extinguished in the reign of his son, (additional info and facts about Carlos IV) Carlos IV, seen by some as mentally handicapped.
		After briefly opposing Revolutionary France early in the (additional info and facts about French Revolutionary Wars) French Revolutionary Wars, Spain soon allied with her northern neighbor, only to be (A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy) blockaded by the British.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_spain.htm (4604 words)

	JBTI Tours & Packages
		Its permanent collection was inaugurated by their Majesties on 10th September 1992, although it was founded as a center dedicated primarily to temporary exhibitions in 1986.
		T he Casa de la Moneda Museum (MCM) is housed within the spacious premises of Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (FNMT) and its collections reflect both the history of Money and the different ways in which it is produced.
		Isabel de Braganza, the wife of Fernando VII, was the patron of the museum and is commemorated by a statue by Álvarez Cubero exhibited within the Prado.
	www.jbti.com /madridvisits.html (414 words)

	Encyclopedia: Philip III of Spain
		Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma (Seville,1552/3 — Valladolid, 1625), the Spanish favorite of Philip III of Spain and minister, was the first of the validos or strongmen through whom the later Spanish Hapsburg monarchs ruled.
		The old king had sorrowfully confessed that God had not given him a son capable of governing his vast dominions, and had foreseen that Philip III would be led by his servants.
		In 1607 nominated Alonso de la Cueva (MarquÃ©s de Bedmar) for the ambassador to the Republic of Venice.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Philip-III-of-Spain (1508 words)

	Art Histroy - Royal Succession in art - Solecism.net
		Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez was born in 1599 in Seville and was baptized in the parish church.
		On March 14 of 1617 Diego was examined and accepted as a "maestro pinto de ymagineria y al olio y todo lo a ello anexo"'master painter of religious images and in oils and everything related'.
		Velazquez lodged in Fonseca's house...and he painted his portrait which was taken the same night to the palace by a son of the Conde de Penaranda, Chamberlain of the Most Serene cardinal.
	www.solecism.net /mind/art/velasquez_comp.shtml (2276 words)

	The Medici Archive Project: News and Notes
		At the Spanish Court, the most characteristic spectacles were the so-called comedias de tramoyas ("transformation plays" or "machine plays".) Combining elements of ballet, masque, pageant and grand opera, their chief attractions were astonishing scenic effects that took place as if by magic before the eyes of the spectactors.
		In 1626, the Conde Duque Olivares, chief minister of Felipe IV, ordered the Duque de Pastrana, Spanish Ambassador Extraordinary to the Papal Court, to recruit a skilled hydraulicist and fountain expert for the royal gardens in Madrid and its vicinity.
		In the stile recitativo, as Ambassador Averardo de’ Medici terms it, the characters told their stories, expressed their emotions and interacted with each other in continuous monody (that is to say, with a single dominant ongoing voice line) in the manner that later came to characterize modern lyric opera.
	www.medici.org /news/dom/dom102002.html (2856 words)

	Encyclopedia: Olivares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gaspar de Guzman, conde de Olivares, a seventeenth-century Spanish statesman
		Olivares de Júcar, Spain, a municipality in Cuenca
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Olivares (115 words)

	Gaspar de Guzmán, conde de Olivares - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Gaspar de Guzmán, conde de Olivares - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares
		This page was last modified 19:41, 29 Apr 2005.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Gaspar_de_Guzman (62 words)

	Antonio María Gercía Español (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		De familia acomodada, consiguió el cargo de secretario del cardenal García de Loaysa, pero a la muerte de este pensó sin duda en la vida placentera que podía proporcionarle el estar cerca de su rico primo Villaseca, allá en la Nueva España.
		De la ciudad de México destaca especialmente sus edificios españoles, siguiendo el gusto clásico; la ve como una ciudad más de la vieja Europa.
		CERVANTES DE SALAZAR, F.: Life in the Imperial and Royal City of Mexico in New Spain and the royal and pontifical University of Mexico as described in the Dialogues for the study of the latin language.
	pizarro.fll.urv.es /public/cervante.htm (7066 words)

	AllRefer.com - Philip IV, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Philip IV was intelligent but lacked interest in the affairs of state, which were handled (until 1643) by the conde de Olivares.
		He was also a patron of Rubens and Cano and was largely responsible for building up the royal collection of paintings, which later became the basis of the Prado Museum.
		CalderOn de la Barca and Tirso de Molina continued the great tradition of Spanish drama during his reign.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Philip4-Sp.html (406 words)

	A History of Europe, Chapter 11
		King Philip IV fired the minister responsible for the tax reform, Gaspar de Guzmán, conde de Olivares, but he was unable to put down the rebellions.
		The combined armies of Condé and another young general, Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, defeated the Bavarians at Freiburg in 1644, and they avenged the defeat of Nördlingen by mauling an Austro-Bavarian force on the same spot (August 3, 1645).
		Normally that would have made for a happy ending, but now Louis II, Prince de Condé, the hero of Rocroi and Lens, switched sides because he had led the royalist forces in 1649 and not received a sufficient reward for his service.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /europe/eu11.html (18609 words)

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		The highest peaks are the Pico de Aneto (3,404 m/11,168 ft) in the Pyrenees, and Mulhacén (3,478 m/11,411 ft) in the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain.
		Effects of the French Revolution The next king, Charles IV, was a weak ruler, prey to intrigues and corruption particularly after 1792, when he gave Manuel de Godoy the direction of the government.
		Primo de Rivera's Dictatorship In September 1923 General Miguel Primo de Rivera led a military coup that gave vent to the widespread disillusionment with the parliamentary regime.
	www.1001medrecipes.com /mSPAIN.htm (12986 words)

	Lessing Julius Rosenwald - Former Owner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gaspar de Guzman, Conde Duque de Olivares, 1778, etching on heavy laid paper [first edition impression printed in the Calcografia in 1778-79], 1951.10.39
		Isabel de Borbon, 1778, etching and drypoint, 1943.3.4706
		La desgraciada muerte de Pepe Illo en la plaza de Madrid (The Unlucky Death of Pepe Illo in the Ring at Madrid), in or before 1816, etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin [first edition impression], 1943.3.1652
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	Amazon.ca: Books: The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Olivares failed, Richelieu succeeded; Richelieu is well known today and Olivares is not.
		This is no work of adulation; Elliott is generous in his judgement of Olivares but never indulgent.
		He feels that Olivares could have done little in the long run to change the course of events that overwhelmed him, but he still bears the responsibility for his own bad choices.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0300044992 (280 words)

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