Agents of Empire : Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the 16th Century Mediterranean World
by Malcolm, Noel
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London: Allen Lane, 2015. 2nd printing. As New. octavo. dust jacket xxv + 604pp., colour plates, maps, notes, bibliog., index, In the late 16th century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Author takes this document as a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto--at which the Ottomans were turned back in the Eastern Mediterranean 1571, and a highly placed interpreter in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire that fell to the Turks in 1453
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- Title
- Agents of Empire : Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the 16th Century Mediterranean World
- Author
- Malcolm, Noel
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- 2nd printing
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2015
- Size
- octavo
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