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BEDMAR, See also:ALPHONSO DELLA CUEVA, See also:MARQUIS OF (1572-1655) , See also:Spanish diplomatist, became See also:ambassador to the See also:republic of See also:Venice in 1667. This was a very important position owing to the amount of See also:information concerning See also:European affairs which passed through the hands of the representative of See also:Spain. When Bedmar took up this See also:appointment, Venice had just concluded an See also:alliance with See also:France, See also:Switzerland and the See also:Netherlands, to counterbalance the See also:power of Spain, and the ambassador was instructed to destroy this See also:league. Assisted by the See also:duke of Ossuna, See also:viceroy of See also:Naples, he formed a See also:plan to bring the See also:city into the power of Spain, and the See also:scheme was to be carried out on See also:Ascension See also:Day 1618. The See also:plot was, however, discovered; and Bedmar, protected by his position from See also:arrest, See also:left Venice and went to See also:Flanders as See also:president of the See also:council. In 1622 he was made a See also:cardinal, and soon afterwards became See also:bishop of See also:Oviedo, a position which he retained until his See also:death, which occurred at Oviedo on the and of See also:August 1655. The authorship of an See also:anonymous See also:work, Squitinio della See also:liberty Veneta, published at See also:Mirandola in 1612, has been attributed to him. Some controversy has arisen over the Spanish plot of 1618, and some historians have suggested that it only existed in the minds of the Venetian senators, and was a ruse for forcing Bedmar to leave Venice. From what is known, however, of the policy of Spain at this See also:time, it is by no means unlikely that such a scheme was planned. See C. V. de See also:Saint-Real, (Euvres, tome iv. (See also:Paris, 1745) ; P.

J. Grosley, Discussion historique et critique sur la conjuration de Venise (Paris, 1756) ; P. A. N. B. See also:

Daru, Histoire de la republique de Venise (Paris, 1853); A. Baschet, Histoire de la chancellerie secrete a Venise (Paris, 1870). See also:BED-See also:MOULD, in See also:architecture, the congeries of See also:mouldings which is under the projecting See also:part of almost every See also:cornice, of which, indeed, it is a part.

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