Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy
- Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy
Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy was an eight-volume collection of articles ostensibly written by an Ottoman spy named "Mahmut". [cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/01/25/stuart/|title=Herbivore vs. carnivore|first=Laura|last=Miller|date=2007-01-25|publisher=Salon.com|accessdate=2007-01-25] Authorities agree that the first volume of this work, published in Italian in Paris in 1684, was written by a Genoese political refugee, Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642-1693), and was not a translation from Arabic. The remainder has been attributed to several English authors, among them Dr. Robert Midgley and William Bradshaw; however, it is likely that Midgley merely edited the English translation, made by Bradshaw, of the original Italian manuscript. Daniel Defoe wrote "A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy" in 1718.
The complete title is "Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682."
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=qJsrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA72&dq=Letters+Writ+by+a+Turkish+Spy&as_brr=1#PPA1,M1 Full text of a 1770 edition] at Google Books
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