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Florence News Sketches Power Struggles and Papal Shifts
Reports from Florence Rome and Milan detail Italian and papal politics. The Duke of Parma clashes with Darmstadt officials over new border limits while Tuscany’s Great Duke weakens and prayers rise for his recovery. In Rome Cardinal Alberoni gains favor, Genoa crowns a new Doge Signius Negroni amid celebrations, and intrigue swirls around the Albani faction and the Sacred College. Nearby Stockholm Berlin and Copenhagen networks move on treaties, leagues, and financings as news outlets track shifts in European influence.
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Ware
Darmstad
Placentia
Parma
Tig
Florence
Tuscany
Eleonora
Rome
Alberoni
Genoa
Signius Dominique Negroni
Senate
Milan
Cardinal Salerno
Prague
Albani
Sacred College
Ponti
House of Austria
Ead
Alliani
Stockholm
Hanover
Berlin
Umburg
Ris
Gobret
Sweden