Don García de Silva y Figueroa. Comentarios de la Embaxada al Rey Xa Abbas de Pérsia (1614-1624) - Parte I

Don García de Silva y Figueiroa; Rui Manuel Loureiro; Ana Cristina Costa Gomes; Vasco Resende

Don García de Silva y Figueroa. Comentarios de la Embaxada al Rey Xa Abbas de Pérsia (1614-1624) - Parte I

Authors

Rui Manuel Loureiro (ed)

CHAM, School of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4635-4096

Ana Cristina Costa Gomes (ed)

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8065-4415

Vasco Resende (ed)

CHAM, School of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6871-8471

Keywords:

International relations, Spanish-Persian relations, Diplomacy, 17th Century

Synopsis

Don García de Silva y Figueroa was an educated man, having studied at Salamanca. Like a modern traveller, he thoroughly prepared his journey to Persia by consulting numerous works on history and geography. Being a compulsive diarist, he wrote dozens of letters, as well as a voluminous travel account, during his long eastern journey, with stopovers in Goa, Muscat and Hormuz, and the unfinished journey back to Europe.

The first two volumes of the critical edition of Comentários provide an accurate transcription of the autograph manuscript, kept in Madrid, at the National Library of Spain.