Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs
Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy

A seven-volume collection, published in nine parts (1864–90), comprising translated Venetian state papers relating to English affairs between 1202 and 1580.

Rawdon Lubbock Brown (Edited and translated by)

9781108060615, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 May 2013

650 pages
29.7 x 21 x 3.3 cm, 1.53 kg

This is the second of three parts of the sixth volume in a seven-volume collection - published between 1864 and 1890 - comprising Venetian and other northern Italian state papers relating to England. Translator and editor Rawdon Lubbock Brown (1806–83) lived for many years in Venice, had unrivalled access to the Venetian archives and travelled widely to find documents in other Italian libraries and archives. He had previously published two volumes of Sebastian Giustinian's dispatches to Venice from Henry VIII's court (also reissued in this series). This second part of the sixth volume contains documents from the years 1556–7, when Queen Mary's husband, Philip II of Spain, had gone to fight the French in Flanders and the Venetians were actively involved in diplomatic measures to negotiate peace. Correspondence from Giacomo Soranzo, ambassador to France, is included here, as well as letters from Philip II and Cardinal Pole.

1556–7.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]