Student, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy introducing the maverick whose diplomacy saved Europe from war.Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as Englands ambassador in 1604. Yet the most remarkable phase of his career was yet to come.In Lying abroad, Carol Chillington Rutter tells Wottons extraordinary story. She reveals how this onetime exile, who fled England after his employer was convicted of treason, gained the favour of King James, securing a knighthood and a diplomatic posting. Charged with restoring relations with Venice after a fiftyyear hiatus, he drew criticism for his breaches of protocol. But when a dispute brought Europe to the brink of war, Wotton took a risk one that changed European history.This engrossing biography recounts a life that was tumultuous, tarnished and endlessly theatrical. The man King James called his honest dissembler was a maverick who fashioned diplomacy in ways that still inform international relations today.

Binding: Hardcover;328 pages; Publisher: Manchester University Press (P648); Classification: BGH; Weight: 778 g; Dimensions: 242 x 170 x 32

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