thumb|right|guido cardinal bentivoglio.  thumb|guido bentivoglio painted by anthony van dyck and engraved by jean morin guido bentivoglio d'aragona (4 october 1579 â 7 september 1644) was an italian cardinal, statesman and historian. ==early years == a member of the ferrara branch of the influential bentivoglio family of bologna, he was the younger son of marchese cornelio bentivoglio and isabella bendidio. after studying at the universities of ferrara and padua, where in 1598 he received a doctorate utroque jureâ in both civil and canon lawâ he returned to ferrara, to the humanistic studies that honed his elegant writing style. there pope clement viii, on a visit to the city that had recently fallen under direct papal control, made him his private chamberlain, and he returned with clement to rome. ==nuncio in brussels and paris== under clement's successor, pope paul v, he was appointed titular archbishop of rhodes, 14 may 1607, with a dispensation for being three months shy of the canonical age and not having yet received the sacred orders, in order to give him appropriate credentials as nuncio at the court of the archdukes albert and isabella in the habsburg netherlands, (1 june 1607 â 24 october 1615).his correspondence as nuncio in brussels, from the archivo bentivoglio, ferrara, was published by raffaele belvederi, guido bentivoglio, diplomatico, 2 vols. (rovigo) 1947. he arrived in brussels when negotiations between the habsburgs and the dutch republic to end the eighty years' war were about to begin. following the conclusion of the twelve years' truce in april 1609, he was greatly concerned with the position of catholicism in the republic. accredited to a habsburg court, he likewise took a keen interest in the final stages of the reign and the succession of emperor rudolf ii. three more topics occupied a great deal of his time: the struggle over the jÃ¼lich-cleves inheritance,the duke having died childless in 1609, the inheritance was contested between the heirs of his two eldest sisters: the heir of maria eleonora of cleves (1550-1608), the eldest sister, was anna of prussia, the electress of brandenburg, a protestant; the son and heir of the second sister, anna of cleves (1552-1632), was the countess palatine of neuburg, a catholic. which was set to ignite the thirty years war, the fli
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