SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 65, CORNHILL.

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Giustinial

PUBLIC LIBRARY 186798A

ASTOR, LOX AND

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London:

Printed by STEWART & MURRAY,
Old Bailey.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

INTRODUCTION.

Concerning the archives of Venice, and the antiquity of Venetian "Reports"

-Earliest MSS. and printed copies of them existing in England-Impartiality

of the Venetian diplomatists-Anglo-Venetian commerce and diplomatic inter-

course-Englishmen of note connected with Venice in the 14th and 15th

centuries-Venetian ambassadors in England from 1497 to 1515-Disco-

very of the Giustinian correspondence, and mode of editing it. pp. ix-xxviii

PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF THE GIUSTINIAN FAMILY.

Notices of the Giustinian family; of the first patriarch of Venice, and of

the writer of these despatches, Sebastian Giustinian-His account of Hungary,

A.D. 1500-1502, and details of the Corvinian library-His career from

1503 to 1515-His portrait of Henry VIII. at variance with a more recent

sketch-Offices conferred on him from 1519 until his death in 1543-

Opinion of his son with regard to the comparative valour of the English

and French

DESPATCHES OF SEBASTIAN GIUSTINIAN.

A.D. 1515.

January 12 to March 30.

pp. 1-30

Departure from Venice of Sebastian Giustinian-His letters from Ferrara,

Lucca, and Genoa-Account of a supper given at Avignon to his colleague

Pietro Pasqualigo-Instructions from Doge Leonardo Loredano-State of the

roads-Entry into Paris of the Venetian ambassadors-Account of the

French Court

PP. 31-59

A.D. 1515.

April 7 to May 3.

Passion Week at Boulogne-Earliest news of the first treaty between Henry VIII.
and Francis I.-Meeting with the French ambassadors at Dover-Entry into
London, viâ Rochester and Deptford-Retrospective account of Andrea
Badoer's adventures on the road between Venice and London, A.D. 1509-His