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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511702503321

Titolo

The commentaries of D. García de Silva y Figueroa on his embassy to Shah Abbas I of Persia on behalf of Philip III, King of Spain / / translated from the Original Spanish manuscript by Jeffrey S. Turley ; edited, with an introduction and annotations by Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-34632-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (926 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, tables

Collana

European Expansion and Indigenous Response, , 1873-8974 ; ; Volume 26

Disciplina

327.4605509/032

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Spain Foreign relations Iran Sources

Iran Foreign relations Spain Sources

Spain Foreign relations 1516-1700 Sources

Iran History 16th-18th centuries Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- Introduction / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- [The Voyage to India April–November 1614] / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- Description of the Island and City of Goa / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- [Goa to Hormuz 21 March–12 October 1617] / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- [Journey to Qazvīn and Meeting with Shah, 12 October 1617–1618] / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- [Report on the Regions of the Persian Empire] / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- [Long-delayed Meetings with Shah ʿAbbās i in Eṣfahān and Return to Goa, 27 July 1618–15 December 1620] / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- [First Attempt to Return to Spain and Forced Return from Mozambique to Goa. Account of Loss of Qeshm and Hormuz. D. García de Silva y Figueroa’s Final Departure from Goa. 19 December 1620–28 April



1624] / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- Bibliography / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza -- Index / Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza.

Sommario/riassunto

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. García 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.