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Line 1: {{Short description\|Spanish bishop, writer, lawyer and diplomat}} ~~{{more citations needed\|date=November 2012}}~~ [[File:Alfonso Clemente de Aróstegui.jpg\|thumb\|Alfonso Clemente de Aróstegui image]] '''Alfonso Clemente de Arostegui y Cañavate''' ([[Villanueva de la Jara]], 5 March 1698 - [[Madrid]], 2 October 1774) was a [[Spanish people\|Spanish]] bishop, writer, lawyer and diplomat. == Biography == He studied at the [[University of Salamanca]] and at the [[University of Alcalá de Henares]]. He worked for the Departments of ''[[Instituta]]'' and Decrees at the [[University Complutense]]; in [[Zaragoza]]'s mayor's office; in [[Roman Rota]]; as an interim minister plenipotentiary of Spain in Rome; as an ambassador in [[Rome]]; at the [[Council of Castile]]; in the [[Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando]]; as a royal commissioner of the [[Holy Crusade]]; in the Council of State{{where\|date=January 2013}}; and as a member of the [[House of Castile]]. He studied at the [[University of Salamanca]] and at the [[University of Alcalá de Henares]]. He worked as a Professor for the Departments of Law and Institutions in 1731 and of Canons and Decrees in 1732 at the [[University Complutense]] and in [[Zaragoza]]'s mayor's officein 1739. In 1744, he moved to Rome, where he became [[Oidor]] for Castile in the [[Roman Rota]] Tribunal. When [[Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona\|Cardinal Acquaviva]] died, he was appointed interim minister plenipotentiary of Spain in Rome (1748). In 1749, he returned to Spain and became a member of the [[Council of Castile]] and vice-protector of the [[Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando]] in 1752.<br> He bequeathed all his books to the college of [[Seminario de San Julián]] in [[Cuenca, Spain\|Cuenca]], also leaving two trusts to support librarians and their corresponding libraries, and two student scholarships.<ref>Miguel Jiménez Monteserín, ''Hacia Cervantes: de los libros al hombre''. Univ de Castilla La Mancha, 2005, p. iv y ss. y Didier Ozanam, ''Les diplomates espagnols du XVIIIe siècle: introduction et répertoire biographique [1700-1808]'', Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 1998, p. 232.</ref>▼ Between 1754 and 1771, he was Spanish ambassador in [[Kingdom of Naples\|Naples]], where he received the [[Order of Charles III]]. After his return to Spain, he became a royal commissioner of the [[:es:Consejo y Comisaría de Cruzada\|Council and Commissariat of the Holy Crusade]]. He was also a member of the Chamber of Castile sinde 1756 and of the Spanish Council of State since 1759.<ref>[https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/19033/alfonso-clemente-de-arostegui-canabate Real Academia de la Historia]</ref> ▲HeBefore he died in 1774, he bequeathed all his books to the college of [[the Seminario de San Julián]] in [[Cuenca, Spain\|Cuenca]], also leaving two trusts to support librarians and their corresponding libraries, and two student scholarships.<ref>Miguel Jiménez Monteserín, ''Hacia Cervantes: de los libros al hombre''. Univ de Castilla La Mancha, 2005, p. iv y ss. y Didier Ozanam, ''Les diplomates espagnols du XVIIIe siècle: introduction et répertoire biographique [1700-1808]'', Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 1998, p. 232.</ref> ==Works== Line 29 ⟶ 32: [[Category:1774 deaths]] [[Category:University of Salamanca alumni]] [[Category:Ambassadors of Spain to the Holy See]] ~~{{Spain-law-bio-stub}}~~ ~~{{Spain-writer-stub}}~~

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