A Spaniard in Elizabethan England

Download or read book A Spaniard in Elizabethan England written by Antonio Pérez and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 1974 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.