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Modern diplomacy began in the fifteenth century when the Italian city-states established resident embassies at the courts of their neighbors. By the sixteenth century, the forms and techniques of the new continuing diplomacy had spread northward to be further developed by the emerging European powers.
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"Garrett Mattingly develops his theme with historical skill, a sense of the relevance of his subject to modern problems, and literary grace all too rare in works of serious scholarship."
New York Herald Tribune
"An important book…carefully and elegantly written."
Times Literary Supplement