The Birth of the Despot: Venice and the Sublime Porte by: Valensi, Lucette; Transl. Denner, Arthur
Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st thus, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 119 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, red cloth covers with gilt text on the spine, and interior pages with mustard colored end papers are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is an elegant and graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes towards the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Clean copy. Record # 34567
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