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RIDOLFI, or RIDOLFO, ROBERTO DI (1531-1612) , Italian conspirator, belonged to a famous family of Florence, where he was born on the 18th of November 1531. As a banker he had business connexions with England, and about 1555 he settled in London, where he soon became a person of some importance, and consorted with William Cecil and other prominent men. During the early years of Elizabeth's reign he began to take a more active part
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scheme and to gain their active assistance thereto. His messenger, by name Charles Baillie (1542-16.25), was, however, seized at Dover, and in other ways the English government heard of the intended rising. Consequently, Norfolk and Lesley were arrested, the former being cQndemned to' death in January 1572. Ridolfi , who was then in Paris, could do nothing when he heard this news, and his scheme collapsed. Afterwards he served the pope
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