BEDMAR, ALPHONSO DELLA CUEVA, MARQUIS OF (1572-1655)

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BEDMAR, ALPHONSO DELLA CUEVA, MARQUIS OF (1572-1655) , Spanish diplomatist, became

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to the republic of Venice in 1667. This was a very important position owing to the amount of information concerning European affairs which passed through the hands of the representative of Spain. When Bedmar took up this appointment, Venice had just concluded an alliance with France, Switzerland and the

Netherlands

NETHERLANDS

, to counterbalance the power of Spain, and the

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

was instructed to destroy this league. Assisted by the duke of Ossuna, viceroy of Naples, he formed a plan to bring the city into the power of Spain, and the

scheme

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

was to be carried out on Ascension Day 1618. The

plot

PLOT
PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

was, however, discovered; and Bedmar, protected by his position from arrest, left Venice and went to

Flanders

FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

as president of the council. In 1622 he was made a cardinal, and soon afterwards became

bishop

of Oviedo, a position which he retained until his death, which occurred at Oviedo on the and of August 1655. The authorship of an

anonymous

ANONYMOUS

work

WORK

,
Squitinio della liberty Veneta, published at

Mirandola

MIRANDOLA

in 1612, has been attributed to him.
Some controversy has arisen over the Spanish

plot

PLOT
PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

of 1618, and some historians have suggested that it only existed in the minds of the Venetian senators, and was a ruse for forcing Bedmar to leave Venice. From what is known, however, of
the policy of Spain at this time, it is by no means unlikely that such a

scheme

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

was planned.
See C. V. de Saint-Real, (Euvres, tome iv. (Paris, 1745) ; P. J. Grosley, Discussion historique et critique sur la conjuration de Venise (Paris, 1756) ; P. A. N. B. Daru, Histoire de la republique de Venise (Paris, 1853); A. Baschet, Histoire de la chancellerie secrete a Venise (Paris, 1870).
BED-MOULD, in architecture, the congeries of mouldings
which is under the projecting part of almost every cornice, of which, indeed, it is a part.

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