The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, 1554-1562

The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, 1554-1562

Translated from the Latin of the Elzevir Edition of 1663

by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, Edward Seymour Forster

265 pages· 1927· ISBN 9780807130711
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In four letters to his friend Nicholas Michault - who had been Busbecq's fellow student in Italy and afterwards was imperial ambassador to the Portuguese court - he details impressions on everything he saw and experienced in Turkey, including landscapes, plants, animals, Islam, ethnic groups, architecture, slavery, military matters, court practices, clothing, gender and domestic relations, and the Sultan himself."

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