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“... the city. The document spread out of control, and so did the rumours about it. Around the leak, Filippo deVivo writes, a ‘thick web of oral communication’ sprang up among people who never saw the relazione on paper. The subsequent trial for leaking secrets uncovered some of the routes by which Bon’s apologia ...”

“... modern letter’. At Oxford, Wotton encountered the Italian jurist Alberico Gentili, whose tract De Legationibus Libri Tres (1585) described the necessary qualities of a successful ambassador: not only the traditional manly virtues of fortitude, prudence and temperance, but also ‘conspicuous bravery’, shrewdness and experience of foreign travel. For ...”