Commentaries of D. García de Silva y Figueroa on His Embassy to Sh&#257;h &#703;Abb&#257;s I of Persia on Behalf of Philip III, King of Spain
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 926
ISBN-13: 9789004346314
Subjects: Spanish literature, history and criticism; Spain, history
Description: The Commentaries' is the first complete English language translation, with complete annotations, of a unique and extraordinary memoir from the pen of the erudite Spanish soldier-diplomat D. Garcia de Silva y Figueroa over the course of his embassy to Persia (1614-1624). 'The Commentaries' transcend the travel-literature genre, emerging as a precocious European intellectual global history that is remarkable for its encyclopedic breadth, its historical depth, and its ethnographic and even artistic sensitivity. 'The Commentaries' will be of interest to historians, ethnographers, and literary critics, or anyone with an interest in early modern European accounts of the encounter between the Portuguese and Spanish Empires and Safavid Persia during the early modern period.