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Though this book is not particularly good, Cardinal Alberoni is himself interesting yet obscure. He was a poor northern Italian boy from Parma who rose to a position of some international prominence as friend and adviser to the Duke of Vendôme, a great French General of the War of the Spanish Succession. Later, after a mission to Spain, Alberoni entered the service of King Philip V of Spain, helping to arrange his marriage to the Parmese princess Elizabeth Farnese. There in Spain, he eventually