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also has wider implications: it points towards a broader contemporary
interface between diplomatic and literary representation. The analogies
between the mimetic art of embassy and literary mimesis – so important
to the exchange between leading poetic and diplomatic theorists Sidney
and Gentili – promise to illuminate a far-reaching investigation into
what it means to represent at the intersection of literature and diplo-
macy in early modern England.
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Notes and references
1. K. Hamilton and R. Langhorne (1995) The Practice of Diplomacy: Its Evolution,
Theory and Administration (London: Routledge), pp. 22–40; M.S. Anderson
(1993) The Rise of Modern Diplomacy, 1450–1919 (London: Longman), pp. 1–12,
41–2; G. Mattingly (1995) Renaissance Diplomacy (London: Cape). Note reser-
vations in J. Watkins (2008) ‘Introduction’ in J. Watkins, ed., Toward a New
Diplomatic History, special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern
Studies, 38.1, 1–14 (4); but see D. Frigo (2000) ‘Introduction’ in D. Frigo,
ed., Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy: The Structure of Diplomatic
Practice, 1450–1800, trans. A. Belton (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press), pp. 1–24 (p. 9).
2. I use the masculine pronoun for the ambassador throughout this chapter
because that is the assumption made in early modern diplomatic treatises.
3. See Timothy Hampton’s groundbreaking and insightful analysis: T. Hampton
(2009) Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press). Also: D. Biow (2002) Doctors, Ambassadors,
Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press), pp. 16, 101–52; A. de Wicquefort (1716) The Embassador
and His Functions, trans. J. Digby (London: Bernard Lintott; repr. Leicester:
Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, University of Leicester, 1997), p. 294;
and, for Ambaxiator Brevilogus, Hampton (2009), pp. 18–19.
4. For typical treatments: K. Duncan-Jones (1991) Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet
(London: Hamish Hamilton), p. 271; J.A. van Dorsten (1962) Poets, Patrons,
and Professors: Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Rogers, and the Leiden Humanists
(London: Oxford University Press), p. 91.
5. See particularly: Hampton (2009); Watkins (2008); B. Charry and G. Shahani
(2009), eds, Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Mediation,
Transmission, Traffic, 1550–1700 (Farnham: Ashgate); J. Powell (2005) ‘“For
Caesar’s I am”: Henrician Diplomacy and Representations of King and
Country in Thomas Wyatt’s Poetry’, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 36.2, 415–31;
J. Watkins (2009) ‘Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI and the Tragedy of Renaissance
Diplomacy’ in C. Levin and J. Watkins Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National
and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press), pp. 51–78; H. Adlington (2008) ‘Donne and Diplomacy’ in J. Shami,
ed., Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England
(Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press), pp. 187–216.
6. Hampton (2009), pp. 2–3.
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