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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq - Seigneur of Bousbecque, Knight, Imperial Ambassador (Paperback)
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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq - Seigneur of Bousbecque, Knight, Imperial Ambassador (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - European History, Volume 2
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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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