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Controversy between Gravina Diocese and Duke triggers tremor in Naples
A long news digest reports arguments between the Bishop of Gravina and the Duke of Gravina over tax impositions on clergy. It notes the bishop’s excommunication of the duke, royal decrees, earthquakes in Gravina and surrounding cities, and various court dispatches from Vienna and Rome about politics, military changes, and diplomacy. The piece lists appointments, regiments, noble moves, and European court news spanning Vienna, Turin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, and Madrid, with dates around late December to January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gravina
Kingdom of
Naples
Duke de Gravina
Jatera
Duke de Gravi
Notios
Terra
Malta
Holy See
Annibal Albani
Sardinia
Turin
Chevalier de St. George
Spain
Barbary
Civita- Vecchia
Catechumens
Viennias
N.S
Council of State
Zumgungen
Princ Rice de Cat
Mademoiselle de Saftago
Locatelli
Beveren
Count de Schonborn
Order of the Golden Fleece
Baron de Roche
Savoy
Eperies
Hungary
Count de Zobar
d’Engelfofen
Temesvaer
Orfova
d’Engelthardt
Academy of Engineers
Brémen and Vehrden
Silesia
Thal
Valmetede
Kufstein
M. Joseph de‘Chefelie
Belgrade
Vienna
Gragde
Fat
M. de Nefler
Gabins 3
Berlin
Lisbon
de’Tarouéa
Portugal
Elaster
Bavaria
Manheim
Poland
Count Humiecki
Podoliny
Mofiezewski
M. Sieninski
M. Szeping
Duke de Montalcone-Pignatelli
Grevenitz