| The Commentaries of D. García de Silva Y Figueroa on His Embassy to Shāh ʿabbās I of Persia on Behalf of Philip III, King of Spain Contributor(s): Turley, Jeffrey Scott (Author), Souza, George Bryan (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004346317 ISBN-13: 9789004346314 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $348.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response |
| Physical Information: 2.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (3.50 lbs) 948 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. Garc a 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. |