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Lands of Frosts and Great Beasts: Poland and Lithuania in the Accounts of Papal and Venetian Diplomats

In: Diplomatica
Author:
Klaudia Kuchno Department of History, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, klaudia.kuchno@eui.eu

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Online Publication Date:
26 Aug 2022
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Abstract

As surprising as it may seem at the first sight, one of the most detailed fragments of a diplomatic report summarizing a mission to Poland and Lithuania written in 1572 by a secretary of a papal nuncio dealt with an animal – the European bison. In fact, representations of nature were omnipresent in sixteenth-century papal and Venetian diplomatic accounts about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The main aim of this article is to demonstrate how and why climate, landscapes, natural resources, and animals came to be an important part of early modern diplomatic communication.

Title:
Lands of Frosts and Great Beasts: Poland and Lithuania in the Accounts of Papal and Venetian Diplomats
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-bja10083
Language:
English
Pages:
180–199
Keywords:
early modern diplomacy; papal diplomacy; Poland; Lithuania; Venice; climate; nature; animals; relazioni finali
In:
Diplomatica
In:
Volume 4: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
2589-1774
Print ISSN:
2589-1766
Subjects:
General, History, International Relations, International Relations, General, Social Sciences

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