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THE DETAILS OF THE PICTURE
twenty in number. They consist of five provinces 1 and four towns,2 in-
cluding Polisy, inserted in France ; four provinces in Spain,3 two cities
in Italy ;4 Sinus Adriaticus ; and the telling names, Servia, Polonia, and
Saxonia.
The additions are precisely such as an acquaintance with Dinteville’s
life and career would lead us to look for.
France is naturally the country where he has chiefly increased their
number. His native Burgundy ; his home at Polisy ; Paris and Lyons,
where he had spent so much of his life at Court; Bayonne, the seat of
many important negotiations during the troubles with Spain ; Brittany,
recently incorporated with the French Crown ; Languedoc, of which his
cousin and protector Montmorency was the Governor : these are amongst
the first names we should expect to find, and do find, inserted.
Spain ranks second in the proportion of places added—a fact
sufficiently explained by the relations of France with Charles V., which
dominated the whole tenour of her diplomacy. Moreover, Spain was
familiar ground to Dinteville’s brothers, if not to himself. Vanlay had
been employed to carry despatches between France and Spain during
the negotiations which preceded the Treaty of Madrid. Deschenetz
had been brought up in the household of Henry, Count of Nassau, at
the Spanish Court.5 Louis de Dinteville had been sent thither as
ambassador by the Knights of St. John.6 Here then were links enough
to give that country a prominence second only to France in the estima-
tion of the Bailly of Troyes. But it was probably the political aspect
which he chiefly intended to emphasize. The key to Dinteville’s
additions to the globe, outside France, is to be found in the course of
French diplomacy between 1525 and 1533.
Rome, placed by her great position in the forefront of public affairs,
seems an addition natural enough to the map of Italy. The recent
1 Pritann (Britannia)., Norma . . ia., Avern., Burgund., Languedoc.
2 Paris, Leon, Baion, Polisy. The rivers Seine and Rhone are also laid down by
Holbein, but left unnamed, probably through lack of space.
3 Castil., Aragon., Navar., Grana.
4 Roma, Genua.
5 See page 52, note 2. 8 Page 54.
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twenty in number. They consist of five provinces 1 and four towns,2 in-
cluding Polisy, inserted in France ; four provinces in Spain,3 two cities
in Italy ;4 Sinus Adriaticus ; and the telling names, Servia, Polonia, and
Saxonia.
The additions are precisely such as an acquaintance with Dinteville’s
life and career would lead us to look for.
France is naturally the country where he has chiefly increased their
number. His native Burgundy ; his home at Polisy ; Paris and Lyons,
where he had spent so much of his life at Court; Bayonne, the seat of
many important negotiations during the troubles with Spain ; Brittany,
recently incorporated with the French Crown ; Languedoc, of which his
cousin and protector Montmorency was the Governor : these are amongst
the first names we should expect to find, and do find, inserted.
Spain ranks second in the proportion of places added—a fact
sufficiently explained by the relations of France with Charles V., which
dominated the whole tenour of her diplomacy. Moreover, Spain was
familiar ground to Dinteville’s brothers, if not to himself. Vanlay had
been employed to carry despatches between France and Spain during
the negotiations which preceded the Treaty of Madrid. Deschenetz
had been brought up in the household of Henry, Count of Nassau, at
the Spanish Court.5 Louis de Dinteville had been sent thither as
ambassador by the Knights of St. John.6 Here then were links enough
to give that country a prominence second only to France in the estima-
tion of the Bailly of Troyes. But it was probably the political aspect
which he chiefly intended to emphasize. The key to Dinteville’s
additions to the globe, outside France, is to be found in the course of
French diplomacy between 1525 and 1533.
Rome, placed by her great position in the forefront of public affairs,
seems an addition natural enough to the map of Italy. The recent
1 Pritann (Britannia)., Norma . . ia., Avern., Burgund., Languedoc.
2 Paris, Leon, Baion, Polisy. The rivers Seine and Rhone are also laid down by
Holbein, but left unnamed, probably through lack of space.
3 Castil., Aragon., Navar., Grana.
4 Roma, Genua.
5 See page 52, note 2. 8 Page 54.
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