A History Of England Principally In The Seventeenth Century Volume 5

Author : Leopold Von Ranke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330770870
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) written by Leopold Von Ranke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 6 In historiography as well as in other things each age has its own characteristics. The seventeenth century is distinguished by the fact, that some of the leading statesmen have themselves taken up the pen and given a detailed account of their own conduct in its bearings on the history of their time and of their country. So in France Sully and Cardinal Richelieu; in a somewhat lighter style Cardinal De Retz. Never were memoirs more thorough and more instructive than during this epoch. In the description of personages the ladies enter into competition with the men, as Mme de Motteville, for example, with La Rochefoucauld. In Italy endeavours were made to enliven the original material with general views, or to open the way for these by means of detailed narrative, as by Davila, and as in the rival histories of Sarpi and Pallavicini. For Germany, Khevenhiller's compilation, which, though shapeless, is partly based on original documents, will always be worth consulting; in contrast to which stands Chemnitz, who works from the original materials of Oxenstierna. Still earlier Van Reyd in like manner had incorporated with his history the personal information, which naturally came to him in his confidential position near the Stadtholder of Friesland. And how much of this kind of literature has remained unprinted; in Vienna the life of an influential minister, in Rome the detailed biographies of such important Popes as Urban VIII and Alexander VI. The historical writers of the republic of Venice, such as Nani, embraced from their point of view a great portion of the history of the world. Among these famous contemporaries Lord Clarendon with his History of the Rebellion takes a front place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.