num_pages: 304
description: Delving into a netherworld of treachery and intrigue in Elizabethan London, John Bossy attempts to solve a centuries-old mystery: who was "Fagot," the spy working within the French embassy in London to subvert Catholic efforts to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and her government? Bossy speculates on the spy's identity in a book that makes a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the wars of religion in Europe and to the domestic history of Elizabethan England.This 3rd Edition lightly revised in light of the sequel, 
  Under the Molehill
.
language: English
title: Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
titlecomplete: Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
genres: Italy, British Literature, Biography, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 52
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Wolfson History Prize, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction
publisher: Yale University Press