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unusual facts about Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar



Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar

The authorship of an anonymous work, Squitinio della libertà Veneta, published at Mirandola in 1612, has been attributed to him.

Giovanni Bembo

His reign is notable for Venetian victories during the War of Gradisca (1617) and for the Bedmar Plot (1618), in which the Spanish ambassador to Venice, Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, attempted unsuccessfully to destabilize the Most Serene Republic.


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