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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2

Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de · Public domain text

251,315 words · about 17 h 36 min to read

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The text of The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #53681. It is public domain in the United States. Edited by F. H. Blackburne Daniell and Charles Thornton Forster. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built

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Author
Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1522–1592)
Language
English
Subjects
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592
Length
251,315 words · about 17 h 36 min
Sections
103 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (103)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. Preface about 1 h 17 min
  3. Letter I about 2 h 3 min
  4. Letter II about 22 min
  5. Letter III about 2 h 36 min
  6. Letter IV about 3 h 20 min
  7. I. LETTERS TO MAXIMILIAN about 2 min
  8. Letter I about 2 min
  9. Letter II about 3 min
  10. Letter III about 2 min
  11. Letter IV about 7 min
  12. Letter V about 2 min
  13. Letter VI about 2 min
  14. Letter VII about 5 min
  15. Letter VIII about 2 min
  16. Letter IX about 2 min
  17. Letter X about 2 min
  18. Letter XI about 3 min
  19. Letter XII about 9 min
  20. Letter XIII under 1 min
  21. Letter XIV about 7 min
  22. Letter XV about 2 min
  23. Letter XVI about 3 min
  24. Letter XVII about 8 min
  25. Letter XVIII under 1 min
  26. Letter XIX under 1 min
  27. Letter XX about 3 min
  28. Letter XXI about 6 min
  29. Letter XXII about 4 min
  30. Letter XXIII about 2 min
  31. Letter XXIV about 13 min
  32. Letter XXV about 4 min
  33. Letter XXVI about 1 min
  34. Letter XXVII about 9 min
  35. Letter XXVIII about 8 min
  36. Letter XXIX about 4 min
  37. Letter XXX about 2 min
  38. Letter XXXI about 3 min
  39. Letter XXXII about 7 min
  40. Letter XXXIII about 5 min
  41. Letter XXXIV about 1 min
  42. Letter XXXV about 3 min
  43. Letter XXXVI about 1 min
  44. Letter XXXVII about 2 min
  45. Letter I about 2 min
  46. Letter II about 1 min
  47. Letter III under 1 min
  48. Letter IV about 1 min
  49. Letter V about 1 min
  50. Letter VI about 3 min
  51. Letter VII about 1 min
  52. Letter VIII about 5 min
  53. Letter IX about 2 min
  54. Letter X about 3 min
  55. Letter XI about 1 min
  56. Letter XII about 3 min
  57. Letter XIII about 1 min
  58. Letter XIV about 7 min
  59. Letter XV about 4 min
  60. Letter XVI about 1 min
  61. Letter XVII about 6 min
  62. Letter XVIII about 1 min
  63. Letter XIX about 2 min
  64. Letter XX about 2 min
  65. Letter XXI about 2 min
  66. Letter XXII about 6 min
  67. Letter XXIII about 4 min
  68. Letter XXIV about 3 min
  69. Letter XXV about 1 min
  70. Letter XXVI about 1 min
  71. Letter XXVII about 2 min
  72. Letter XXVIII under 1 min
  73. Letter XXIX about 6 min
  74. Letter XXX about 1 min
  75. Letter XXXI about 3 min
  76. Letter XXXII about 3 min
  77. Letter XXXIII under 1 min
  78. Letter XXXIV about 2 min
  79. Letter XXXV about 1 min
  80. Letter XXXVI under 1 min
  81. Letter XXXVII about 2 min
  82. Letter XXXVIII about 2 min
  83. Letter XXXIX about 1 min
  84. Letter XL about 1 min
  85. Letter XLI about 3 min
  86. Letter XLII about 2 min
  87. Letter XLIII about 1 min
  88. Letter XLIV under 1 min
  89. Letter XLV about 2 min
  90. Letter XLVI about 3 min
  91. Letter XLVII under 1 min
  92. Letter XLVIII about 5 min
  93. Letter XLIX about 6 min
  94. Letter L under 1 min
  95. Letter LI about 3 min
  96. Letter LII about 1 min
  97. Letter LIII under 1 min
  98. Letter LIV about 2 min
  99. Letter LV about 1 min
  100. Letter LVI about 2 min
  101. Letter LVII about 2 min
  102. Letter LVIII about 6 min
  103. Appendix about 3 h 28 min

The opening of Preface

We ask to be allowed to introduce the Reader to a kind and genial cicerone, who can take him back, three centuries deep, into the Past, and show him the Turk as he was when he dictated to Europe instead of Europe dictating to him; or conjure once more into life Catherine de Medici, Navarre, Alençon, Guise, Marguerite the fair and frail, and that young Queen, whom he loved so well and served so faithfully.

THE FIRST VOLUME.

PAGE

LIFE OF BUSBECQ 1

TURKISH LETTER I. 75

” ” II. 174

” ” III. 192

” ” IV. 315

Errata.

The references in footnotes on pp. 105-250, to other passages in this volume after p. 72, should be advanced by 2 pages, e.g. for 163, read 165.

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