Diego_Guzmán_de_Silva

Diego Guzmán de Silva

Diego Guzmán de Silva

Spanish canon and diplomat


Diego Guzmán de Silva (Ciudad Rodrigo, c. 1520 - Venice, 1577) was a Spanish canon and diplomat. He served as ambassador to England (then under Elizabeth I), the Republic of Genoa and the Republic of Venice.[1]

Anonymous engraving of Diego Guzmán de Silva (National Portrait Gallery, London).

Guzman is depicted as the ambassador of Spain to Britain during the reign of Edward VI in Becoming Elizabeth.


References

  1. Levin, Michael Jacob (2005). Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801443527.

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