"When this is done, the <i>Soul</i> becometh a pure <i>Tabula Rasa</i>, and is fit for the Impressions of Celestial Virtue."
The Turkish Spy [from volume 7]
Based on a 30-letter Italian original, <u>L'esploratore turco</u> (1684), by Giovannia Paolo Marana (1642-1693), <u>L'espion turc</u> was published in French in 1684; <u>The Turkish Spy</u>, in English in 1687. Multiple entries in the ESTC. Sixth edition in 1694, 19th edition in 1718, 25th in 1753. After the success of the first volume, the work was expanded to 632 letters and published in eight volumes, attributed to various authors in 1696-97. <br>
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Text from <u>The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Who Liv'd Five and Forty Years Undiscover'd at Paris: ... Written Originally in Arabick, Translated Into Italian, from Thence Into English.</u> 9th ed. vol. 7 of 8. (London: Printed for G. Strahan, W. Mears, S. Ballard, F. Clay, J. Hooke, B. Motte, R. Williamson, and the executors of H. Rhodes, 1730). 