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Eyn Sendbrieff an Babst Adrianum : darinn mit Christenlichem warhafftigem grundt angezaygt wirt ein sicherer haylsamer weg zu auszreuttung aller ketzereyen und zu haylsamer rettung gantzer Christenhait von des Türcken tyranney / von Hartmudt von Cronbergk.

Hartmut, von Cronberg

...Second edition of Cronberg's letter to Pope Adrian VI. Hartmut von Cronberg, from a family of free imperial knights and a Lutheran, advised the Pope to divide the Papal States among the warring parties of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor...

Oratio ab illustrissimo ad sedem pontificiam legato Cæsareo, Principe de Liechtenstein, Romæ in Consistorio, a. 1691, 12. Febr. proposita.

Anton Florian, Liechtenstein, Fürst

...A speech delivered to the consistory by Anton Florian, Count of Lichtenstein, the Imperial Ambassador to the Vatican, on 12 February 1691, exhorting the cardinals to elect a successor to Pope Alexander VIII, who had died on 1 February, ‘cum...

Discorso notabile à favore di N.S Pio IIII per la general unione dei Potentati di Christianita per la Sanctiss.ma Cruciata contra il Turco.

[Unknown]

...An exhortation to the Pope Pius IV to enlist the help of various European states for a major aggressive offensive against the Turks. Drawing on the recent victory of the Knights of St John over the Turks' siege of Malta as an example...

Epistola domini Marci Maruli Spalatensis ad Adrianum, VI, pont. max. de calamitatibus occurentibus, et exhortatio ad communem omnium Christianorum unionem et pacem.

Marko Marulić

...First edition of this appeal to Pope Adrian VI written from Split in the aftermath of the capture of Belgrade by Suleiman I in August 1521. "Our towns and villages are in flames," he writes, "the crops ruined...our churches have been turned...

Oratione di Luigi Groto cieco ambasciator di Hadria : Fatta in Vinegia, per l'allegrezza della vittoria ottenuta contra Turchi dalla santissima Lega, in questa terza impressione dall'autore ricorretta.

Luigi Groto

...Luigi Groto, known as Il Cieco d'Adria, the blind man of Adria, began giving public orations at the age of fourteen. He wrote poetry and plays and published an annotated edition of 'Boccaccio'. This oration was delivered on the occasion...

Niccolo Loridano - Lega contro il Turco, 1574.

Niccolo Loridano

...A long discourse offering proposals for a permanent alliance between the states of Italy against the Turks, following their recent success at Lepanto, and addended with copies of letters to be sent to Philip II, King of Spain...

I Pregi della Toscana nell'imprese più segnalate de' cavalieri di Santo Stefano : opera data in luce da Fulvio Fontana della compagnia di Gesù dedicata all'altezza reale di Cosimo III, gran duca di Toscana e gran maestro dell'ordine.

Fulvio Fontana

...This work celebrates the deeds of the Knights of Saint Stephen in defending Tuscany against the Turks. The fine plates show various naval battles and sieges but included in this copy is the frontispiece portrait of Cosimo III, Grand Duke...

Laudinii equitis hierosolimitani ad Francinu[m] Beltrandu[m] comite[m] in epistolas magni Turci praefatio.

Laudivio Zacchia

...Incunable edition, the fourth, of this literary forgery. "Laudivius, an Italian litterateur who worked in Venice, Rome and Naples, claims to have translated these letters of Mehemet the Conqueror from Greek, Syrian and Scythian...

Letter of recommendation and dispensation from the Shah of Persia to Sir Anthony Sherley his ambassador, to ensure that the latter would receive respect and safe passage throughout his dominions and neighbouring ones as well, particularly in Muscovy, dated 1598/9

ʻAbbās I, Shah of Iran

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Sherley, Anthony, Sir

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Husein Ali Beg

...Sherley first appeared in Persia in 1600 intending to persuade ʻAbbās I, Shah of Iran (1571-1629), to join an alliance against the Turks, and re-establish Anglo-Persian commercial ties. ʻAbbās I granted him a ferman conferring numerous...

Rede, so er gegen dem aller-Christlichsten Konig über den Turckischen Krieg zu Marsal den 31 Augusti lauffenden 1663, Jahre soll gehalten haben.

Turenne, Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de

...A speech persuading Louis XIV to join European efforts at fighting the Turks, spuriously attributed to the most famous of seventeenth-century military leaders and actually a piece of German propaganda against French relations...