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New PDF release: Philip Sidney: A Double Life

By Alan Stewart

ISBN-10: 0312282877

ISBN-13: 9780312282875

ISBN-10: 1845951743

ISBN-13: 9781845951740

Courtier, poet, soldier, diplomat - Philip Sidney was once essentially the most promising younger males of his age. Son of Elizabeth I's deputy in eire, nephew and inheritor to her favorite, Leicester, he used to be tipped for top place of work - or even to inherit the throne. yet Sidney quickly discovered himself stuck up within the complex politics of Elizabeth's court docket and compelled to develop into as Machiavellian as everybody round him if he used to be to accomplish his objectives. opposed to a backdrop of Elizabethan intrigue and the conflict among Protestant and Catholic for predominance in Europe, Alan Stewart tells the riveting tale of Philip Sidney's fight to suceed. due to the fact his continental allies had a better experience of his value that his English contamporaries, Philip became his awareness to Europe. He was once made a French baron at seventeen, corresponded with prime international students, thought of marriage proposals from princesses and, on the time of his tragically early demise, was once being overtly spoken of because the subsequent ruler of the Netherlands.

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