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The Survival of an Oligarchy

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PETER PARTNER, in the first of two talks about Rome in the 16th century, talks about the great families of cardinals and popes. After the great sack of Rome in 1527 the wealth and Influence of their great households far from declined, and the princes of the church mastered the art of economic and political survival.
(Labour in Rome: 11 March)

Source: Radio Times

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