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

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

"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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Main Author: Malcolm, Noel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Bruni, Antonio, > -1598.
Bruni, Antonio, > -1598 > Family.
Bruti, Bartolomeo, > -1592 > Family.
Bruni, Antonio, > -1598
Bruti, Bartolomeo, > -1592
Bruni, Antonio, > ( -1598)
Bruti, Bartolomeo, > ( -1592)
1288-1918
East and West > History > 16th century.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Modern > 16th Century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
East and West
Families
International relations
Albania > History > 16th century.
Ulcinj > Biography.
Albania > Relations > Italy > Venice.
Venice (Italy) > Relations > Albania.
Mediterranean Region > History > 16th century.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Albania
Italy > Venice
Mediterranean Region
Montenegro > Ulcinj
Turkey
Albanie > 16e siècle.
Albanie > Relations > Venise (Italie)
Venise (Italie) > Relations > Albanie.
Europe > 16e siècle.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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