Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII : Selection of Despatches Written by the Venetian Ambassador, Sebastian Giustinian, and Addressed to the Signory of Venice, January 12th, 1515, to July 26th, 1519 (Cambridge Library Collection - European History)

Giustiniani, Sebastiano/ Brown, Rawdon Lubbock (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2013/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 362 p.
• 言語 ITA
• 商品コード 9781108060011
• DDC分類 942.052

Full Description

Sebastian Giustinian (1460-1543) served as the Venetian ambassador to the court of Henry VIII between 1515 and 1519, during which time he sent back frequent and detailed dispatches to the Signory of Venice. In 1515, when Giustinian arrived at the English court, Henry was only twenty-four and described as 'expert in arms, and of great valour, and most excellent in his personal endowments'. In this first of two volumes, Guistinian's letters paint a vivid portrait of a diplomat's life at court, covering treaty negotiations, meetings with Cardinal Wolsey, and the personal qualities of the monarch and his queen. Translator and editor Rawdon Lubbock Brown (1806-83) had an unrivalled knowledge of the Venetian archives: he was the first historian to appreciate the importance of the dispatches sent from London by the Venetian ambassadors. His edition of Giustinian's correspondence provided an entirely new insight into Henry's reign when it was first published in 1854.

Contents

Introduction; Preliminary account of the Giustinian family; Despatches of Sebastian Giustinian, AD 1515-16.