The 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

Author:   Jeffrey Scott Turley ,  George Bryan Souza
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   26
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Pages:   928
Publication Date:   21 June 2017
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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. Garcia 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.

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Author:   Jeffrey Scott Turley ,  George Bryan Souza
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   26
Weight:   1.586kg
ISBN:  

9789004346314


ISBN 10:   9004346317
Pages:   928
Publication Date:   21 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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...Turley and Souza's English edition of the Commentaries - a key source to understand Safavid-Iberian relations in the early 1600s, as well as early modern travel writing and cross-cultural contacts - is an excellent one and the two editors are to be commended for an impressive achievement. - Jorge Flores (European University Institute, Florence), Journal of Early Modern History, 2018, Vol. 22, No.1-3 Es esta obra monumental el volumen 26 de la coleccion European Expansion and Indigenous Response dirigida por el profesor George Bryan Souza de la Universidad de Texas, San Antonio. Su realizacion ha exigido la colaboracion de un especialista en filologia romanica (Jeffrey S. Turley) y de un historiador de la expansion europea en Asia (George Bryan Souza), ademas del apoyo varias instituciones, del asesoramiento de un numero crecido de eruditos y de la colaboracion de expertos en la confeccion de mapas, segun se hace constar en los Acknowlegments. Conscientes ambos autores de que los Comentarios de Silva y Figueroa son uno de los mas importantes libros de viajes europeos a Persia, aunque no hayan alcanzado la fama de los de Adam Olearius y Jean Chardin pese a contar con la traduccion francesa de Abraham de Wicquefort de 1667, se propusieron ofrecer por primera vez la traduccion anotada de los mismos en lengua inglesa a los desconocedores del espanol, confiados en que su trabajo seria ampliamente utilizado por los historiadores y etnografos de Asia, y por los interesados en las relaciones de los imperios portugues y espanol con la Persia Safavida. Concebido el proyecto a fines de los setenta del siglo pasado, los autores se repartieron el trabajo de la siguiente manera: Turley haria la traduccion inglesa, y Souza prepararia el indice, las ilustraciones, mapas y glosarios. Ambos colaborarian en la edicion, traduccion y redaccion de la introduccion y las notas. La sinergia ha resultado tan perfecta que, salvo en los comentarios estrictamente linguisticos (italianismos, latinismos, portuguesismos), se hace dificil averiguar la respectiva contribucion de ambos autores. - Luis Gil Fernandez, Anuario de Estudios Americanos, Vol. 75, No. 1


...Turley and Souza's English edition of the Commentaries - a key source to understand Safavid-Iberian relations in the early 1600s, as well as early modern travel writing and cross-cultural contacts - is an excellent one and the two editors are to be commended for an impressive achievement. - Jorge Flores (European University Institute, Florence), Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2018 Overall, this painstaking edition of Silva y Figueroa's mission to Persia is about as good as it gets in terms of editing a text and while the Commentaries are not particularly groundbreaking in what they reveal, readers of this journal will find this a fascinating source of material regarding voyages not mentioned in Boxer's admittedly very general study of Portugal's Seaborne Empire, and more broadly regarding oceanic travel a hundred years after da Gama first demonstrated the viability of the maritime route from Europe to India via the Cape [...] Christopher Storrs, The International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2018, pp. 592-594 To be sure, this is a fascinating account and the Herculean task of making it available to the Englishspeaking world was clearly a labour of love. Andrew J. Newman, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2018, DOI: 10.1017/S1356186318000482 Es esta obra monumental el volumen 26 de la coleccion European Expansion and Indigenous Response dirigida por el profesor George Bryan Souza de la Universidad de Texas, San Antonio. Su realizacion ha exigido la colaboracion de un especialista en filologia romanica (Jeffrey S. Turley) y de un historiador de la expansion europea en Asia (George Bryan Souza), ademas del apoyo varias instituciones, del asesoramiento de un numero crecido de eruditos y de la colaboracion de expertos en la confeccion de mapas, segun se hace constar en los Acknowlegments. Conscientes ambos autores de que los Comentarios de Silva y Figueroa son uno de los mas importantes libros de viajes europeos a Persia, aunque no hayan alcanzado la fama de los de Adam Olearius y Jean Chardin pese a contar con la traduccion francesa de Abraham de Wicquefort de 1667, se propusieron ofrecer por primera vez la traduccion anotada de los mismos en lengua inglesa a los desconocedores del espanol, confiados en que su trabajo seria ampliamente utilizado por los historiadores y etnografos de Asia, y por los interesados en las relaciones de los imperios portugues y espanol con la Persia Safavida. Concebido el proyecto a fines de los setenta del siglo pasado, los autores se repartieron el trabajo de la siguiente manera: Turley haria la traduccion inglesa, y Souza prepararia el indice, las ilustraciones, mapas y glosarios. Ambos colaborarian en la edicion, traduccion y redaccion de la introduccion y las notas. La sinergia ha resultado tan perfecta que, salvo en los comentarios estrictamente linguisticos (italianismos, latinismos, portuguesismos), se hace dificil averiguar la respectiva contribucion de ambos autores. - Luis Gil Fernandez, Anuario de Estudios Americanos, Vol. 75, No. 1


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Jeffrey S. Turley is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Brigham Young University, where he currently holds a College of Humanities Professorship. He is the translator and co-editor with Souza of The Boxer Codex: Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-East and East Asia (Brill, 2015). George Bryan Souza is affiliated with the Department of History, University of Texas, San Antonio and, recently, a Mercator Guest Professor at Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen. He is the author of The Survival of Empire (CUP, 1986, 2004), Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1595-1800 (Ashgate / Variorium, 2014), and a co-editor of Hinterlands and Commodities (Brill, 2014). He is the General Editor of Brill's EURO series.

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