The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq, Vol. 1 of 2: Seigneur of Bousbecque Knight, Imperial, AmbassadorWE 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, Alencon, Guise, Marguerite the fair and frail, and that young Queen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.