The Commentaries of D. García de Silva y Figueroa on His Embassy to Shāh ʿabbās I of Persia on Behalf of Philip III, King of Spain

This edition is the first complete English translation, with complete annotations, of The Commentaries by the erudite Spanish soldier-diplomat D. García de Silva y Figueroa, ambassador to Persia (1614-1624), remarkable for its encyclopedic breadth and ethnographic scope.

About the author

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 Universität Tübingen. 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.

Product details

• Authors: George Bryan Souza, Jeffrey Scott Turley
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2017
• EAN: 9789004346314
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34631-4
• No. of pages: 948
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 239 mm x 53 mm
• Weight: 1588 g
• Series: European Expansion and Indigen
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries