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CLEMENT X

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 486 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEMENT X . (Emilio Altieri) was See also:born in See also:Rome, on the 13th of See also:July 1J90. Before becoming See also:pope, on the 29th of See also:April 167o he had been auditor in See also:Poland, See also:governor of See also:Ancona, and See also:nuncio in See also:Naples. His advanced See also:age induced him to resign the See also:control of affairs to his adopted See also:nephew, See also:Cardinal Paluzzi, who embroiled the papacy in disputes with the See also:resident ambassadors, and incurred the enmity of See also:Louis XIV., thus provoking the See also:long controversy over the See also:regalia (see See also:INNOCENT XI.). Clement died on the 22nd of July 1676. See Guarnacci, Vitae et res gestae Pontiff. Rom. (Rome, 1751), (contin. of Ciaconius), i. i seq. ; Palazzi, Gesta Pontiff. Rom. (See also:Venice, 1687-1688), iv. 655 seq.; and See also:Ranke, Popes (Eng. trans.

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Austin), iii. 172 seq. (T. F.

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