Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

by Noel Malcolm

Book Overview

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 Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto--at which the Ottomans were turned back in the Eastern Mediterranean--in 1571, and a highly placed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190262788
• ISBN13: 9780190262785
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"