The Diary of John Evelyn (Summarized Edition)

Sinopsis del libro

The Diary of John Evelyn (Vol. 1&2) presents a capacious record of seventeenth‑century life, from the upheavals of the Civil Wars and Commonwealth to the Restoration and the scientific turn of the age. Evelyn's entries, at once decorous and exact, move from court ceremonial and cabinet politics to plague, fire,…