I trust her up to a point. She gets little details like dates and name spellings wrong, and as selenak caught, doesn't seem to know MT is the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia in 1742.
But she works mostly off Algarotti's letters in the archives in Italy, and she does have citations. Plus I did some googling, and I found this one book from 2019 which is heavily footnoted, called Andrew Mitchell and Anglo-Prussian Diplomatic Relations During the Seven Years War, which looks useful if someone wants to write Mitchell for RMSE next year! Anyway, this book agrees Algarotti stayed with Mitchell and wrote letters to him, and it cites those letters in very scholarly-looking footnotes.
Oh, looks like it's a reprint/e-book edition of a 1986 publication. Still. I would say Mitchell and Algarotti knowing each other is reasonably well corroborated.
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Re: Andrew Mitchell: Secret Algarotti Boyfriend?!
Date: 2020-09-07 06:21 pm (UTC)But she works mostly off Algarotti's letters in the archives in Italy, and she does have citations. Plus I did some googling, and I found this one book from 2019 which is heavily footnoted, called Andrew Mitchell and Anglo-Prussian Diplomatic Relations During the Seven Years War, which looks useful if someone wants to write Mitchell for RMSE next year! Anyway, this book agrees Algarotti stayed with Mitchell and wrote letters to him, and it cites those letters in very scholarly-looking footnotes.
Oh, looks like it's a reprint/e-book edition of a 1986 publication. Still. I would say Mitchell and Algarotti knowing each other is reasonably well corroborated.
somebody should read this bookit might be relevant to their interests