English travellers to Venice, 1450-1600
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English travellers to Venice, 1450-1600
（Works / issued by the Hakluyt Society, 3rd ser.,
Published by Routledge for the Hakluyt Society, 2022
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Bibliography: p. 403-415
Includes index
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English Travellers to Venice 1450 -1600 contains 35 separate accounts (with 27 colour and 45 black and white illustrations) of the experiences of a wide range of English travellers to Venice. These accounts, drawn from contemporary manuscript and printed sources, provide vivid impressions of the challenges and hardships endured by visitors to the city and of the complexities of Anglo-Venetian relations during the pre- and post-Reformation periods. They also communicate these travellers' sense of wonder at the city's grandeur and artistic treasures and their enduring fascination with Venice's republican government, political structures and Mediterranean possessions. These travellers include pilgrims, scholars, religious exiles, ambassadors, English courtiers and noblemen, eccentric and renegade characters, seafarers and an undercover intelligence gatherer during the late 1580s for Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's 'spymaster'.
This volume's introduction assesses elements of Anglo-Venetian contacts between 1450 and 1600 and examines some specific topics, such as: the leading role of Venetian naval experts in attempts in 1545 to salvage Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose; a first-hand account by an English visitor's servant of the disastrous and lethal 1575-7 outbreak of the plague at Venice; and, during the build-up to the Spanish Armada, the impressive international reach of the Venetian intelligence service which enabled the doge and Council to remain well informed about both Spanish and English plans. In addition to the colour plates, illustrating the brilliant artistic achievements of Venetian art by Bellini, Carpaccio, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, the volume includes a selection of engravings of Venetian life from the renowned collections of Giacomo Franco. A wide range of illustrations is also included from important early maps of Venice, by Erhard Reuwich for Bernard von Breydenbach's Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam (1486), Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum (1493), Jacopo de' Barbari's aerial view of Venice (1500) and the stunning map of Venice in Civitates orbis terrarum (1572-1617) by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. Perhaps most remarkable is that many of the locations, buildings, religious objects and artistic treasures described in this volume may still be seen today by visitors to this unique Italian city, renowned for centuries as 'La Serenissima'.
Table of Contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTION / 1. Early Modern Anglo-Venetian Contacts / 2. English Travellers to Venice 1450-1548 / 3. English Travellers to Venice 1548-1600 / 4. Giacomo Franco's Engravings of Venice / 5. Maps of Venice / PART 2: ENGLISH TRAVELLERS TO VENICE 1450-1600 / 1. c.1454 'The Physician's Handbook' of Richard 'Esty' or Richard 'of Lincoln' / 2. 1458/1462 The 'Itineraries' of William Wey / 3. 1458 and 1460 John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester / 4. c.mid-1460s-c. early 1470s Sir Edmund Wighton / 5. c.1492/93-97 Thomas Linacre / 6. c.1498/1500 Informacon for pylgrymes unto the holy londe / 7. 1506 Sir Richard Guildford's chaplain, Thomas Larke / 8. c.1511-14 The Pylgrymage of Master Robert Langton / 9. 1513 Sir Thomas Newport and Sir Thomas Sheffield / 10. 1517 Sir Richard Torkington / 11. c.1521-c.1526, 1532-6 Reginald Pole / 12. c.1520s-1550 Edmund (Sigismund) Harvell / 13. 1527 Thomas Wyatt and Sir John Russell / 14. c.1538-42 Andrew Bo(o)rde / 15. 1545 The sinking of the Mary Rose and Venetian salvage attempts / 16. 1545/48 The Historie of Italie by William Thomas / 17. 1548/1550 and 1554/55 Sir Thomas Hoby and the Protestant English community at Venice and Padua / 18. 1550-56 Peter Vannes (Pietro Vanni of Lucca), English Ambassador to Venice / 19. 1552 Roger Ascham / 20. 1564 Richard Smith's account of Sir Edward Unton's visit to Venice / 21. 1570 and 1589 Henry Cavendish / 22. 1573-4 Philip Sidney at Venice, with Griffin Madox, Harry Whyte, John Fisher, Thomas Coningsby, Lodowick Bryskett and Edward Lord Windsor / 23. 1575-6 Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford / 24. 1575/77 Sir John North and his servant Hugh Lochard / 25. c.1575 Sir Henry Unton / 26. 1580 James Crichton / 27. 1581 Arthur Throckmorton / 28. 1581 Laurence Aldersey / 29. 1587/88 Stephen Powle / 30. Venetian intelligence about the Spanish Armada in 1588 / 31. 1588 Edward Webbe (1553/54-after 1592) / 32. 1591 Sir Henry Wotton / 33. 1593-5, 1596, 1597 Fynes Moryson / 34. 1595 Henry Piers / 35. English attitudes to Venice by 1600 / APPENDIX: Venetian Locations, Institutions and Ceremonies
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