 Complete the following phrase:  The Genoese banker Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, for instance, himself raised and led an army that fought in the Eighty Years War in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. The decline of Spain in the 17th century brought also the renewed decline of Genoa, and the Spanish crowns frequent bankruptcies, in particular, ruined many of Genoas merchant houses. In 1684 the city was 