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By Garrett Mattingly
Famed historian's definitive historical past of the origins of international relations, tracing the diplomat's position because it emerged within the Italian city-states and unfold northward within the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. "An vital book...carefully and assuredly written." — the days (London). "Excellent." — ny usher in Tribune. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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Perhaps, having lectured for years on legal questions,he had written about the subjectat length elsewhere. Many others certainly had, and throughout the rest of the fifteenth century others were still to do so, sometimesin special treatises,sometimes in scattered paragraphs. Later, enough of this legal literature found its way into print so that we can still satisfyourselvesthat Rosier was not exaggerating when he said that the rules and principles governing the treatment of ambassadorswere most familiar to all experts in the civil and the canon law.
But resident embassiesare a secular institution, and the Roman curia played only a slight r6le in their development. There were no resident ambassadors at the Holy See before the r43o's, or at least there is no discernible trace of any. Their appearance at Rome in the fifteenth century was a consequence of THE ITALIAN the general development. Two more recent suggestions connect the origin of the system with Rome. l During the same period the patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch and |erusalem maintained similar representatives at Constantinople, also for ecclesiastical business.
The office of an ambassadoiIr always foi good, never for discord or evil . ' In other words an ambassadorwho used his office for other than its ProPer ends forfeits his immunity, and is liable to punishment at the hands of an oflended prince. nJ of his office, the ProPer function of the ambassador,is to titu. the general welfare, by promoting peace. g body, with obligations only ro the government which Pays him, and status only within its jurisdiction, that it comes as somethitg of a shock to realize that all thesewrirers, from Bartolus down into the sixteenth century, were talking about a much larger public.