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| | Pastwords: Alberoni and Spanish Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Alberoni's greatest service to Spain, was the destruction of the power of the royal councils (which, though originally the chief executors of royal policy, had become the centers of aristocratic opposition to reform), which he brought about by a series of decrees issued in Jan. 1717. |
 | | Guilio Alberoni (1664-1752) Spanish-Italian cardinal and statesmen, son of very poor parents, he labored as a gardener until age 15 at which time he became a bellringer in the cathedral of Pacenza where he gained the notice of the Bishop and was ordained a priest. |
 | | The Advice of these Proceeding received at Madrid, caused Cardinal Alberoni to take Courage, who suspecting that the Germans might make a longer Resistance, began to despair of the Success of that Enterprise, on which depended that of the Project he had formed against the other Dominions of Italy. |
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