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Agents of empire : knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world /

"In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the Balk...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Malcolm, Noel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Note on Names, Conventions and Pronunciations
  • 1: Ulcinj, Albania and Two Empires
  • 2: Three Families
  • 3: Antonio Bruti in the Service of Venice
  • 4: Giovanni Bruni in the Service of God
  • 5: Gasparo Bruni, the Knights of Malta and Dubrovnik
  • 6: War, Galleys and Geopolitics, 1570
  • 7: War, Rebellion and Ottoman Conquest, 1570-1571
  • 8: The Lepanto Campaign, 1571
  • 9: War, Peace and La Goletta, 1572-1574
  • 10: Istria
  • 11: Bartolomeo Bruti and the Prisoner Exchange, 1573-1575
  • 12: Intelligence-gathering, Espionage and Sabotage, 1575-1577
  • 13: Giovanni Margliani, Mehmed Sokollu and Secret Diplomacy, 1577-1579
  • 14: Bartolomeo Bruti, Sinan Pasha and the Moldavian Venture, 1578-1580
  • 15: Gasparo Bruni and the Huguenot War in Avignon, 1573-1586
  • 16: Antonio Bruni, Jesuit Education and the Last Years of Gasparo Bruni
  • 17: Moldavia, Tatars, Cossacks and Iancu Sasul, 1580-1582
  • 18: Bartolomeo Bruti, Petru Schiopul and Aron, 1582-1592
  • 19: Cristoforo Bruti and the Creation of a Dragoman Dynasty
  • 20: Petru Schiopul in Exile, and his Counsellor, Antonio Bruni, 1591-1598
  • 21: War, Geopolitics and Rebellion, 1593-1596
  • 22: The 1596 Campaign and Pasquale Dabri's Peace Mission
  • Epilogue: The Legacy : Antonio Bruni's Treatise
  • Glossary
  • List of Manuscripts.