UID:
almahu_9949701862902882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004346321
Series Statement:
European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 26
Uniform Title:
Comentarios de D. Garcia de Silva y Figueroa de la embajada que de parte del rey de España Don Felipe III hizo al rey xa Abas de Persia.
Content:
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.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
,
Introduction /
,
[The Voyage to India April-November 1614] /
,
Description of the Island and City of Goa /
,
[Goa to Hormuz 21 March-12 October 1617] /
,
[Journey to Qazvīn and Meeting with Shah, 12 October 1617-1618] /
,
[Report on the Regions of the Persian Empire] /
,
[Long-delayed Meetings with Shah ʿAbbās i in Eṣfahān and Return to Goa, 27 July 1618-15 December 1620] /
,
[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] /
,
Bibliography /
,
Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Silva y Figueroa, García de, author. Commentaries of D. Garcia de Silva y Figueroa on his embassy to Shah Abbas I of Persia on behalf of Philip III, King of Spain Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 ISBN 9789004346314
Language:
English
