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245		4	_aThe life and letters of ogier ghiselin de busbecq : _bseigneur of bousbecque, knight, imperial ambassador / _cedited and translated by Charles Thornton Foster and F.H.Blackburne Daniell
260			_aNewYork : _bCambridge university press, _c2012.
300			_a418 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
490			_aCambridge Library Collection European History
505			_aLife of Busbecq; Turkish letters 1; Turkish letters 2; Turkish letters 3; Turkish letters
520			_aOgier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522-92) was a Flemish herbalist, diplomat and writer. In 1554, Ferdinand I, soon to be Holy Roman Emperor, dispatched him to Suleiman the Magnificent's court as an ambassador to the Ottoman empire, where Busbecq spent years negotiating a border dispute between his employer and the sultan. While there, he also discovered important manuscripts and sent the first tulip bulbs to Europe. He returned to Vienna in 1562, where he acted as counsellor to Ferdinand, after whose death he continued to serve the Habsburgs. This two-volume work, first published in 1881, contains Busbecq's letters, edited and translated into English from Latin by two Cambridge scholars. Volume 1 contains a lengthy biography of Busbecq, written by the editors, and his famous Turkish Letters, which are a unique source of information on Ottoman court life in the sixteenth century.
650			_aHistory
700			_aFoster, Charles Thornton
700			_aDaniell, Blackburne F.H.
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