Giovanni Francesco Biondi

[2] At the suggestion of Sir Henry Wotton, the English ambassador, Biondi went to England to seek his fortune.

Arriving in 1609, with an introduction to James I, he was at first employed in negotiations with Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy over marriages between his children, and Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales and Princess Elizabeth.

[3] In 1615 Biondi went to the Calvinist assembly in Grenoble as James I's representative, assuring them of the English king's protection and favour.

[3] Biondi left England in 1640 for the house of his brother-in-law Mayerne, at Aubonne, near Lausanne, Switzerland.

[3] Biondi was the author of a trilogy of chivalric romances, which tell a continuous story, and of a work on English history.