1450年至1600年期间，英国游客前往威尼斯，其中包括35个不同的账户（27种颜色和45种黑白插图），讲述了各种英国游客前往威尼斯的经历。这些记录来自当代手稿和印刷品，生动地展示了游客在这座城市所经历的挑战和艰辛，以及改革前后盎格鲁-威尼斯关系的复杂性。他们还传达了这些旅行者对威尼斯的宏伟和艺术珍品的好奇，以及他们对威尼斯共和国政府、政治结构和地中海财产的持久魅力。这些旅行者包括朝圣者、学者、宗教流亡者、大使、英国朝臣和贵族、古怪和叛逆的人物、海员，以及1580年代末为伊丽莎白女王的“间谍头目”弗朗西斯·沃尔辛厄姆爵士收集情报的卧底。
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English Travellers to Venice 1450 –1600
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’.
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