European Expansion and Indigenous Respon The Commentaries of D. GarcÃa de Silva Y Figueroa on His Embassy to Shāh ʿabbās I of Persia on Behalf of Book 26 (Hardcover)

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.