English Travellers to Venice 1450 ¿1600

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<P><EM><STRONG>English Travellers to Venice 1450 ¿1600</STRONG></EM> contains 35 separate accounts (with 27 colour and 45 black and white illustrations) of the experiences of a wide range of English travellers to Venice. These accounts, drawn from contemporary manuscript and printed sources, provide vivid impressions of the challenges and hardships endured by visitors to the city and of the complexities of Anglo-Venetian relations during the pre- and post-Reformation periods. They also communicate these travellers¿ sense of wonder at the city¿s grandeur and artistic treasures and their enduring fascination with Venice¿s republican government, political structures and Mediterranean possessions. These travellers include pilgrims, scholars, religious exiles, ambassadors, English courtiers and noblemen, eccentric and renegade characters, seafarers and an undercover intelligence gatherer during the late 1580s for Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth¿s ¿spymaster¿.</P><P>This volume¿s int