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Our 2024 #emdiplomacy #AdventCalendar offered some glimpses into different #emdiplomats careers by introducing different diplomatic actors.
The #handbook takes a different approach by offering some generalizations. Our authors Sven Externbrink and Magnus Ferber take a closer look on the career paths of #emdiplomats as well as their social, national and educational backgrounds which suggest that the group of offical diplomatic actors in this age appears to be quite homogeneous. (2/10)

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Stone horse as part of a porte in the dark with lots of golden lights around. In the center is a big 1.
hcommons.socialEarly Modern Diplomacy (@emdiplomacy@hcommons.social)Attached: 1 image #emdiplomat of the day: Carl Gyllenborg (1679-1746) You think #emdiplomacy is boring? Then you don’t know Carl Gyllenborg’s life; it reads like a spy novel, although it began quite ordinary for a Swedish diplomat. Gyllenborg was born as the son of the Swedish politician Count Jacob Gyllenborg. He studied law, latin and history at the university of Uppsala, before he joined the army and fought in the Great Northern War. This is already interesting, as the connection between military experience and expertise and #emdiplomacy is an aspect that needs more attention from research. (1/4) #AdventCalendar #AdventCalendar2024 @histodons@a.gup.pe @historikerinnen@a.gup.pe @earlymodern@a.gup.pe
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Under this great hill I lie buried

Mighty elephant which the King Manuel
Having conquered the Orient
Sent as captive to Pope Leo X.
At which the Roman people marvelled, --
A beast not seen for a long time,
And in my brutish breast they perceived human feelings. Fate envied me my residence in the blessed Latium
And had not the patience to let me serve my master a full three years.
But I wish, oh gods, that the time which Nature would have assigned to me,
and Destiny stole away,
You will add to the life of the great Leo.

He lived seven years
He died of angina
He measured twelve palms in height.
Giovanni Battista Branconio dell'Aquila
Privy chamberlain to the pope
And provost of the custody of the elephant,
Has erected this in 1516, the 8th of June,
In the fourth year of the pontificate of Leo X.

That which Nature has stolen away

Raphael of Urbino with his art has restored. (6/8)

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However, the friendship between #Pope and #elephant was short-lived: In June 1516, Hanno fell seriously ill; he could barely breathe and had convulsions. Pope Leo called in his own doctors, who diagnosed angina due to the shortness of breath. The animal was also suffering from constipation, and the doctors decided to treat it with a laxative, which, in accordance with common #earlyModern practice, was enriched with a large amount of gold and administered to the elephant in a high dosage in view of its size. The treatment was ineffective; the animal died on 8 June 1516 and was interred in the Cortile del Belvedere. His skeletal was discovered in 1962 during construction work on the cooling system. In contrary to first assumptions it did not belong to #dinosaur but an elephant. (5/8)

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The #pope affection for his exotic pet manifested itself in various ways:
1) He showed it in occasional public performances in which the #elephant bowed and knelt when called upon, sprayed water around, danced to music and apparently performed all kinds of tricks.
2) This affection is expressed in the stories of spectators who saw the #Pope playing with Hanno on a Sunday when the public was allowed to visit the enclosure and noticed the Pope's devoted clumsiness.
3) Out of concern for Hanno's health, the Pope refused to lend the elephant to relatives elsewhere. (4/8)

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Hanno was a white elephant that was gifted to #Pope Leo X upon his election by the Manuel I, king of #Portugal.

However, Hanno was not the first #elephant within #emdiplomacy. We can trace the tradition of sending elephants as diplomatic gifts back to the year 800. It became a regular custom first in the 13th century.

Diplomatic gifts and especially exotic gifts or animals were quite common during the #earlyModern period. They should reflect or even enhance both the giver’s and receiver’s honour and rank.

degruyter.com/document/doi/10.

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De Gruyter · 33 Material Exchanges: Gifts, Tribute and Corruption33 Material Exchanges: Gifts, Tribute and Corruption was published in Early Modern European Diplomacy on page 673.
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