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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2013
    09 August 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139452892
    9781108054560
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139452892
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.45kg, 352 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Middle East History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Middle East History
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    Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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    Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522–92) was a Flemish herbalist, diplomat and writer. In 1554, Ferdinand I, soon to be Holy Roman Emperor, dispatched him to Suleiman the Magnificent's court as an ambassador to the Ottoman empire, where Busbecq spent years negotiating a border dispute between his employer and the sultan. While there, he also discovered important manuscripts and sent the first tulip bulbs to Europe. He returned to Vienna in 1562, where he acted as counsellor to Ferdinand, after whose death he continued to serve the Habsburgs. This two-volume work, first published in 1881, contains Busbecq's letters, edited and translated into English from Latin by two Cambridge scholars. Volume 2 contains letters written in France to the Holy Roman Emperors Maximilian II and Rudolph II, and an index and appendix to both volumes, the latter including Busbecq's itineraries and a helpful outline of Hungarian history.

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