League of Cambrai

Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation:
“The nature of the time, most serene prince, requires this, an observance of an old proverb, which enjoins kissing the hand we are unable to cut off”
Sebastien Guistinian, Venetian Ambassador to England’s Henry VIII

“The nature of the time, most serene prince, requires this, an observance of an old proverb, which enjoins kissing the hand we are unable to cut off”
Sebastien Guistinian, Venetian Ambassador to England’s Henry VIII