Thursday, September 24, 2020

Letter excerpt from Mahmut, "a Turkish spy", to Bassa Afis reporting Kristina's illness, dated January 28/February 7 (New Style), 1647 (APOCRYPHAL; FABRICATION BY GIOVANNI PAOLO MARANA)

Source:

The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy: Who Liv'd Five and Forty Years Undiscover'd at Paris, volume 3, page 173 (Letter XXII), by Giovanni Paolo Marana, 1748 (twelfth edition); original at Harvard University


The letter excerpt:

Queen Christina has been very ill, which has occasion'd Letters of Condolance from the Queen Regent of France.


Above: Kristina.


Above: Anne of Austria, Queen Regent of France.

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