Would-Be-Politics: Early Modern Travel Writing and the Drama of Political Expertise
In what may be the most quoted aphorism on early modern diplomacy, the English ambassador Henry Wotton famously wrote to a friend that “[a]n ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”1 While most critical uses of this aphorism emphasize the double, or possible...
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| Published in: | Journal of the Wooden O Symposium 2021-01, Vol.21, p.36 |
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