Autobiography, A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published - Softcover

Edward Lord Herbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461354454 ISBN 13: 9780461354454

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

Autobiography, A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published is a volume collecting personal memoirs, among them The Life Of Edward Lord Herbert, told largely in the first person. The work presents the life and times of Edward Herbert, detailing his ancestry, education, marriage, and long public career as a soldier, diplomat, and statesman across Europe. The narrative charts his campaigns in France, the Low Countries, Italy, and Hungary, his diplomatic dealings with Louis XIV’s court and the Austrian empire, and his influential writing, including De Veritate and other moral and philosophical treatises. Interwoven are reflections on virtue, governance, rhetoric, and religion, along with portraits of his friendships, enmities, and military exploits—together offering a vivid panorama of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century European politics, war, and thought. The volume is framed by editor’s preface and a sequel that summarizes later years, presenting a complex, courageous figure whose life intersected with major historic events across the continent.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461354454
• ISBN 13: 9780461354454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366