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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq : Seigneur of Bousbecque, Knight, Imperial Ambassador.
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ISBN: 1139452886 1108054552 Year: 1881 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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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 1 contains a lengthy biography of Busbecq, written by the editors, and his famous Turkish Letters, which are a unique source of information on Ottoman court life in the sixteenth century.


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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq : Seigneur of Bousbecque, Knight, Imperial Ambassador.
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ISBN: 1139452894 1108054560 Year: 1881 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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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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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2)

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

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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq : Seigneur of Bousbecque, Knight, Imperial Ambassador. Volume 2
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ISBN: 9781139452892 9781108054560 Year: 1881 Publisher: Place of publication unknown:Cambridge publisher unknown,Cambridge University Press

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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq : Seigneur of Bousbecque, Knight, Imperial Ambassador. Volume 1
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ISBN: 9781139452885 9781108054553 Year: 1881 Publisher: Place of publication unknown:Cambridge publisher unknown,Cambridge University Press

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