Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy, Vol. 2: 1509-1519 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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On the continent of Europe the change may be dated a little earlier, At the close of the 15th century, and the beginning of the l6th, the continual agitations and aggressions with which the great continental powers were endeavouring to extend or consolidate their dc minions, brought about the closest intercoru'se between the different members of the European family. Leagues of spoliation and partition, leagues of guarantee and pro tection, of attack and defence, succeeded each other with endless variety of combination. The balance of power Was recognized as the leading principle of the statesman's policy; and how to enforce it in the case of his neighbom' and to elude it in his own became, as it has been ever since, the prime object of his ambition, which called into action all the resources of his genius and all the arts of diplomacy. At the League of Cambray, the effect of which upon the foreign policy of the English court forms the chief subject of the present volume, the intrigues and artifices of diplomatic treachery sprang into a rank 111k?

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