About the Author
James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell (1858-1941), was a British politician and diplomat. He was the British ambassador to Italy during World War I, as well as an author and historian. His works include Sir Walter Raleigh (1904), a volume in the English Men of Action series, and The Princes of Achaia (1907), a study of Greece in the Middle Ages.
