The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, a Flemish diplomat in the service of the Habsburgs, spent years as imperial ambassador at the court of Suleiman the Magnificent, and his letters from Constantinople are vivid early European accounts of the Ottoman Empire. This edition by Charles Thornton Forster and F. H. Blackburne Daniell, published in two volumes in 1881, begins with a life of Busbecq and his family, then gives in English his four famous Turkish letters, describing his journey, the sultan's court, the army, animals, plants and customs. The second volume contains his later letters from France to the Habsburg court, full of news of the French wars of religion. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first letters are free.
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