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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 born in Rome, on the 13th of
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July 1J90 . Before becoming pope, on the 29th of
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April 167o he had been auditor in Poland, governor of Ancona, and
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nuncio in Naples . His advanced age induced him to resign the control of affairs to his adopted
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nephew, Cardinal Paluzzi, who embroiled the papacy in disputes with the
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resident ambassadors, and incurred the enmity of Louis XIV., thus provoking the long controversy over the regalia (see 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 . (Venice, 1687-1688), iv . 655 seq.; and Ranke, Popes (Eng. trans .

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

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