The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2

The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2

We ask to be allowed to introduce the Reader to a kind and genial cicerone, who can take him back, three centuries deep, into the Past, and show him the Turk as he was when he dictated to Europe instead of Europe dictating to him; or conjure once more into life Catherine de Medici, Navarre, Alenon, Guise, Marguerite the fair and frail, and that young Queen, whom he loved so well and served so faithfully. The references in footnotes on pp. 105-250, to other passages in this volume after p. 72, should be advanced by 2 pages, e.g. for 163, read 165. LIFE OF BUSBECQ. The days are now past when students were content to take their history at second hand, and there is therefore the less reason to apologise for introducing to the reader, in an English dress, the letters of one who was an eyewitness and actor in some of the most important events in the sixteenth century. Several of the most striking passages in Robertsons History of Charles V. are taken from Busbecq; De Thou has borrowed largely from his letters; and the pages of Gibbon, Coxe, Von Hammer, Ranke, Creasy, and Motley, testify to the value of information derived from this source. It must not, however, be supposed that all that is historically valuable in his writings has found a place in the works of modern authors. On the contrary, the evidence which Busbecq furnishes has often been forgotten or ignored. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 53681
Author: Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
Release Date: Dec 6, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Daniell, F. H. Blackburne (Francis Henry Blackburne), 1845-1921 , Forster, Charles Thornton, 1836-1891