The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England, and the Reformation
Diego Pirillo, "The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England, and the Reformation"
English | ISBN: 1501715313 | 2018 | 300 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1501715313 | 2018 | 300 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
The establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy has traditionally been regarded as the moment of transition between medieval and modern diplomacy. In The Refugee-Diplomat, Diego Pirillo offers an alternative history of early modern diplomacy, centered not on states and their official representatives but around the figure of "the refugee-diplomat" and, more specifically, Italian religious dissidents who forged ties with English and northern European Protestants in the hope of inspiring an Italian Reformation.
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