————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Transcribers note: This is the combined version of The Life and Letters Of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq Volume I and Volume II. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— OGIER GHISELIN DE BUSBECQ VOL. I. [Illustration: AVGERIVS GISLENVS BVSBEQVIVS. _Te voce, Augeri, mulcentem Cæsaris aures Laudauit plausis Austrius Ister aquis. Te Ducis Ismarij flectentem pectora verbis Thrax rapido obstupuit Bosphorus e pelago. Te gesfisfe domum pro nata Cæsaris, ingens Sequana conspexit, Parisÿq3 lares_ _I. Lernutius._] THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF OGIER GHISELIN DE BUSBECQ SEIGNEUR OF BOUSBECQUE KNIGHT, IMPERIAL AMBASSADOR BY CHARLES THORNTON FORSTER, M.A. _Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge: Vicar of Hinxton_ AND F. H. BLACKBURNE DANIELL, M.A. _Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: Barrister-at-Law_ Πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω _IN TWO VOLUMES_ VOL. I. LONDON C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1881 (_The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved_) TO MONSIEUR JEAN DALLE MAIRE OF BOUSBECQUE AS A SLIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS KINDNESS AND THE VALUABLE ASSISTANCE WE HAVE DERIVED FROM HIS RESEARCHES THESE VOLUMES ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED PREFACE. We ask to be allowed to introduce the Reader to a kind and genial cicerone, who can take him back, three centuries deep, into the Past, and show him the Turk as he was when he dictated to Europe instead of Europe dictating to him; or conjure once more into life Catherine de Medici, Navarre, Alençon, Guise, Marguerite the fair and frail, and that young Queen, whom he loved so well and served so faithfully. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. PAGE LIFE OF BUSBECQ 1 TURKISH LETTER I. 75 ” ” II. 174 ” ” III. 192 ” ” IV. 315 _Errata._ The references in footnotes on pp. 105-250, to other passages in this volume after p. 72, should be advanced by 2 pages, e.g. _for_ 163, _read_ 165. LIFE OF BUSBECQ. [Illustration] LIFE OF BUSBECQ. _Introductory._ The days are now past when students were content to take their history at second hand, and there is therefore the less reason to apologise for introducing to the reader, in an English dress, the letters of one who was an eyewitness and actor in some of the most important events in the sixteenth century.