John Bossy

John Bossy has painstakingly reconstructed from clues and evidence, a hitherto untold story of intellectual intrigue, spying and double-cross in Elizabethan England. In the 1580s, during the most tense period of the cold war between Elizabeth I's Protestant England and Philip II's Catholic Spain, an Italian philosopher and intellectual lived quietly in London as a lodger with the French ambassador, writing among other things, about Copernicus' new theory of the universe. But men of letters may not be always what they seem...