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| | Pope Leo XII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Leo XII's foreign policy, entrusted at first to Giulio Maria della Somaglia and then to the more able Tommaso Bernetti, moved in general along lines laid down by Consalvi; and he negotiated certain concordats very advantageous to the papacy. |
 | | Personally most frugal, Leo XII reduced taxes, made justice less costly, and was able to find money for certain public improvements; yet he left the finances more confused than he had found them, and even the elaborate jubilee of 1825 did not really mend matters. |
 | | Leo XII, temperamentally stern, and hard-working in spite of bodily infirmity, died at Rome on February 10, 1829. |
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