256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Giovanni P. Marana, author of the letters in this volume was an Italian living in France in the seventeenth century. He wrote in the character of a Turk visiting Paris. Marana was probably the first writer to use the device of a series of letters written by a visitor to a foreign country in order to comment satirically on contemporary politics, culture, religion and philosophy. Disguised as a... Read more

Introduction. The Letters: Volume I, Book I, Letters I, VIII, IX, XI, XXVIII,

Volume I, Book II, Letters IX, X, XII, XVII,

Volume I, Book III, Letters, XI, XIX

Volume I, Book IV, Letters VII, XVIII, XXIV

Volume II, Book I, Letters XII, XXIV, XXVI, XXVII, XXXIV         

Volume II, Book III, Letters I, XVIII, XXIII, XXV, XXXIV

Volume III, Book I, Letters III, V, X, XXVII

Volume III, Book II, Letters X, XVI, XVII, XXVIII

Volume IV, Book II, Letters XIX

Volume IV, Book III, Letters I, IV

Volume IV, Book IV, Letters III, IX, XIV

Volume V, Book I, Letters XI, XIII

Volume V, Book II, Letters II, XVI, XIX

Volume V, Book III, Letter I

Volume V, Book IV, Letters IX, XIII, XV

Volume VI, Book I, Letters I, II

Volume VI, Book II, Letters VII, X, XII, XIX, XX

Volume VI, Book III, Letters VII, XIV, XVIII, XIX

Volume VI, Book IV, Letters IV, XVII

Volume VII, Book I, Letters I, II, XII, XVII

Volume VII, Book II, Letters III, IV,

Volume VII, Book III, Letters VIII, XII

Volume VII, Book IV, Letters I, III, V

Volume VIII, Book II, Letters XI, XIII

Volume VIII, Book IIII, Letter XII

Volume VIII, Book IV, Letters VIII, XIII, XVIII.

Bibliography.   

Biography

Arthur J. Weitzman (1933–2013)

‘Letters Writ By A Turkish Spy is…a refreshing, fruitful and comparative Orientalist discourse, which, in our day and age, could be much needed.’ Goodreads, April 2019