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GERMONIUS, See also:ANASTASIUS [ANASTASE GERMON] (1551-1627) , See also:canon lawyer, diplomatist and See also:archbishop of Tarantaise, belonged to the See also:family of the marquises of Ceve, in See also:Piedmont, where he was See also:born. As See also:archdeacon at See also:Turin he was a member of the See also:commission appointed by See also:Pope See also:Clement VIII. to edit the See also:Liber septimus decretalium; and he also wrote Paratitla on the five books of the See also:Decretals of See also:Gregory IX. He represented the See also:duke of See also:Savoy at the See also:court of See also:Rome under Clement VIII. and See also:Paul V., and was See also:ambassador to See also:Spain under See also:Kings See also:Philip III. and IV. He died on the 4th of See also:August 1627. Germonius is best known for his See also:treatise on ambassadors, De legatis principum et populorum libri See also:tees (Rome, 1627). The See also:book is diffuse, pedantic and some-what heavy in See also:style, but valuable historically as written by a theorist who was also an See also:expert See also:man of affairs.

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