Diego Guzmán de Silva

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

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]

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.