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, JULES, b. either at Rome or at Piscina in the Abruzzi, of a very old Sicilian family, July 14, ; d. at Vincennes, March 9, His father was majordomo to the Colonna family at Rome. One of his uncles, Giulio Mazarini (), a Jesuit, enjoyed a great reputation in Italy, particularly at Bologna, as a preacher, and published several volumes of sacred eloquence. His youth was full of excitement: he accompanied the future CardinalColonna to Madrid; he was in turn a captain of pontifical troops and then a pontifical diplomat in the Valtelline War () and the Mantuan War of Succession (). The truce which he negotiated (October 26, ) between the French, on one side, and the Spaniards and the Duke of Savoy, on the other, won for him the esteem of Richelieu, who was well pleased at his letting Pignerol fall into the hands of the French. The Spaniards tried to injure him with Pope Urban VIII, but the influence of Cardinal Antonio Barberini and a letter

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