Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 376. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 376 p. Contains: Unspecified. Excerpt from Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII, Vol. 1 of 2: Selection of Despatches Written by the Venetian Ambassador, Sebastian Giustinian, and Addressed to the Signory of Venice, January 12th 1515, to July 26th 1519
But before transmitting the official documents to the government, it seems to have been the general practice to retain a copy for the family library, or muniment room (the of the ambassador himself; and thence, or perhaps from the notes of some one who heard them read in the Senate and committed their substance to paper, these reports, not unfrequently even in early times, and despite the prohibition of the Signory, found their way to the public. It is surprising that a government so jealous, whose omniscient activity and mysterious ubiquity were at once SO much vaunted and dreaded, should have permitted its orders on so delicate a point to be infringed; but these interesting documents early excited public curiosity, and supply follows demand, even in the middle ages, and in spite of Inquisitors of State.
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