@article{625408, recid = {625408}, author = {Marana, Giovanni Paolo,}, title = {The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, who liv'd five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most Remarkable Transactions of Europe: And, Discovering several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts (especially of That of France) Continued from the Year 1637, to the Year 1682. Written, originally, in Arabick. Translated into Italian, from thence into English: And Now Published with a Large Historical Preface and Index, to Illustrate the Whole. By the Translator of the First Volume. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {printed by A. Wilde, for G. Strahan, S. and E. Ballard, J. Brotherton, W. Meadows, T. Cox, R. Ware, J. Clarke, S. Birt, D. Browne, T. Astley, S. Austen, J. Shuckburgh, J. Hodges, E. Wicksteed, J. Oswald, J. Comyns, C. Bathurst, C. Corbet, J. Ward, A. Clarke, and A. Wilde.,}, address = {London :}, pages = {v.1(xxvi,[4],viii,[10],312p.) :}, year = {1748}, note = {Vol. 1 is a translation of 'L'Esploratore turco .. ' by G. P. Marana, originally published in Paris in 1684; subsequent volumes have been variously attributed, but were probably edited by Robert Midgley from William Bradshaw's translation of the original Italian MS.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/625408}, }