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... Tanucci's first task was to cleanse these Augean Stables , and he set to work with great energy and per sistence . Intieri often praised his reforms in despatches to Florence , and related the following anecdote as a sample of his ...
... Tanucci's first task was to cleanse these Augean Stables , and he set to work with great energy and per sistence . Intieri often praised his reforms in despatches to Florence , and related the following anecdote as a sample of his ...
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... Tanucci's expenditure , and he had ordered an inquiry into his manage- ment of Jesuit properties since the time of their expulsion . He could never forgive Tanucci's carelessness in promoting so many costly enterprises without examining ...
... Tanucci's expenditure , and he had ordered an inquiry into his manage- ment of Jesuit properties since the time of their expulsion . He could never forgive Tanucci's carelessness in promoting so many costly enterprises without examining ...
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... Tanucci did not like me at all and employed me even less , I cannot be enveloped in the disgrace of his creatures . Sambuca is my old and true friend , but he will make nothing of me and will conse- quently do nothing for me , for the ...
... Tanucci did not like me at all and employed me even less , I cannot be enveloped in the disgrace of his creatures . Sambuca is my old and true friend , but he will make nothing of me and will conse- quently do nothing for me , for the ...
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Elisabeth Farneses ambitions for her elder son Don CarlosHis departure | 11 |
Matrimonial projectsCharless betrothal to Maria Amalia of Saxony | 27 |
New palacesPortici and HerculaneumRoyal hunting preserves | 47 |
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