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Paris and Rome Letters Reveal Court Elections and Honors
From Amsterdam to Rome reports reveal court intrigues and appointments. The Paris academy seeks three vacant abbey posts, while Parma’s ambassador informs the Pope that Spain offers the Order of the Golden Fleece to the infant Don Carlos, with him poised to become Prince of Tuscany Parma and Placentia. Genoa notes the arrival of Count de Ribeiras and a casamento with a Castro family member, and Porto-Longone’s garrison shows Spanish troop movements. A foreign engineer rumored to be involved in incendiaries is said to have been strangled in prison, and a beheaded man linked to public marriage is mentioned amid unrest in Hungary and Austria. The Vatican receives a Cardinal’s letters about Palo fortress deliveries to the Pope.
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Amsterdam
Rome
Parma
Spain
Carlos
Hotel of Medicis
Lisbon
Castro
Marquis de Mary
Porto-Longone
St. Perr
Arena
Mhofen
Hungary
Ausria
Amsterdam Courant
Cienfuegos
Palo
Juliano ‘Grillo