Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World Pyotr Ershov Emerald for Mercury

Emerald for Mercury

ISBN10: 0988732882

A] must-read for thrill-seekers and fans of alternate worlds

and reveals their strategic reasons for doing so

Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World Pyotr Ershov Emerald for MercuryIn 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