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 | | Urban was vain, self-willed and extremely conscious of his position; he accepted the papacy chiefly as a temporal principality, and made it his first care to provide for its defence and to render it formidable. |
 | | The only territory gained during Urban's pontificate, the duchy of Urbino, the last addition to the papal states, was acquired by reversion (1631); and in his one war, with the duke of Parma, for the district of Castro, he met defeat and humiliation (1644). |
 | | Urban died on the 2ptb of July 1644, and was succeeded by Innocent X. For contemporary accounts of Urban see: Tommasucci, in Platina, De v-itis -Pontiff. |
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