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27 février 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pumi.12127
- isbn: 9782810703364
- eisbn: 9782810708680
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T. C. Price Zimmermann, « Foreword », Presses universitaires du Midi, ID : 10.4000/books.pumi.12127
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No historian of his era took a greater interest in the Ottoman Turks than Paolo Giovio. Although he was an ardent partisan of a crusade to stop the expansionist drive of the sultans, their raids on Christian cities, and their conquests of Christian lands and peoples, it was part of his cosmopolitan outlook and political sagacity to realize that understanding one’s enemy was a necessary prelude to an effective campaign against him. As a historian he felt that by promoting an understanding of t...