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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 386 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARBERINI , the name of a powerful See also:

Italian See also:family, originally of Tuscan extraction, who settled in See also:Florence during the See also:early See also:part of the 1th See also:century. They acquired See also:great See also:wealth and See also:influence, and in 1623 Maffeo Barberini was raised to the papal See also:throne as See also:Urban VIII. He made his See also:brother, See also:Antonio, a distinguished soldier, and two nephews, cardinals, and gave to a third See also:nephew, Taddeo, the principality of See also:Palestrina. Great See also:jealousy of their increasing See also:power was excited amongst the neighbouring princes, and Odoardo See also:Farnese, See also:duke of See also:Parma,made See also:war upon Taddeo, and defeated the papal troops. After the See also:death of Urban in 1644 his successor, See also:Innocent X., showed hostility to the Barberini family. Taddeo fled to See also:Paris, where he died in 1647, and with him the family became See also:extinct in the male See also:line. His daughter See also:Cornelia married See also:Prince Giulio Cesare See also:Colonna di Sciarra in 1728, who added her name to his own. On the death of Prince Enrico Barberini-Colonna the name went to his daughter and heiress Donna Maria and her See also:husband See also:Marquis See also:Luigi See also:Sacchetti, who received the See also:title of prince of Palestrina and permission to See also:bear the name of Barberini. The See also:fine Barberini See also:palace and library in See also:Rome give See also:evidence of their wealth and magnificence. The ruthless way in which they plundered See also:ancient buildings to adorn their own palaces is the origin of the saying, " Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini." See A. von See also:Reumont, Geschichte der Stadt Rom (See also:Berlin, 1868), iii. b. 611-612, 615, 617, &c.; Almanach de See also:Gotha (Gotha, 1902) ; J. H.

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Douglas, The See also:Principal See also:Noble Families of Rome (Rome, 1905).

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