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.
- ISBN:
- 9789004346314
- 9789004346314
- Category:
- Memoirs
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 21-06-2017
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Brill
- Country of origin:
- Netherlands
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x155mm
- Weight:
- 1.59kg
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