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Category Travels in Iran, 1617-1622
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Travels in Iran, 1617-1622, livre ebook

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  • English

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  • 2026

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A landmark of seventeenth-century travel writing—now available for the first time in a complete, fully annotated English translation. When the Roman nobleman Pietro della Valle set out for the East in 1614, he imagined a pilgrimage. What he produced instead was one of the most vivid and detailed portraits of Safavid Iran ever written. His letters from Isfahan, Shiraz, Farahabad, Qazvin, and Basra – part reportage, part ethnography, part personal confession – capture a world in the midst of transformation under Shah Abbas the Great. In these pages, della Valle records court ceremonials and bazaars, gardens and palaces, mineral lore and medical practices, and the daily life of Persians, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, and Indians. He writes with equal intimacy about politics and architecture, marriage customs and music, caravan life and commerce. His account of Isfahan – its Maydan, palaces, caravanserais, and tree-lined avenues – remains one of the greatest city descriptions of the early modern world. Despite the enormous popularity of Viaggi in the seventeenth century, no complete English translation has ever existed. Drawing on the authoritative two-volume 1843 Brighton edition, Willem Floor has translated and annotated every letter concerning Iran, including della Valle’s Baghdad letters and materials from Muscat and Basra when relevant. The result is a monumental work: over 1,140 pages of translated text – 57 percent of the original Viaggi – presented with meticulous notes, modernized place and personal names, and a detailed index and bibliography. Elegant, intimate, and encyclopedic, Travels in Persia, 1617 to 1622 of Pietro della Valle opens an unparalleled window onto Safavid Iran and stands as an indispensable source for historians, scholars, and general readers fascinated by the early modern Middle East.

Foreword, vii

Part I, Baghdad

Letter XVII, Baghdad,

10 and 23, December 1616, 1

Letter XVIII, Baghdad, 2 January 1617, 68

Part II, PERSIA, Section I (1617-1619)

First Letter, Isfahan, 17 March 1617, 77

Letter II, Isfahan, 19 March 1617, 137

Letter III, Isfahan, 18 December 1617, 145

Letter IV, Farahabad in the early days of May,

and from Qazvin on 25 July 1618, 212

Letter V, Isfahan, 22 April and 8 May, 1619, 383

Part II, Persia, Section II (1619-1623)

Letter VI, Isfahan, 24 August 1619, 551

Letter VII, Isfahan, 21 October 1619, 607

Letter VIII, Isfahan, 4 April 1620, 617

Letter IX, Isfahan, 20 June 1620, 665

Letter X, Isfahan, 3 August 1620, 677

Letter XI, Isfahan, 8 August 1620, 681

Letter XII, Isfahan, 23 February 1621, 697

Letter, Isfahan, 25 February 1621, 750

Letter, XIV, Isfahan, 24 September 1621, 757

Letter XV, Shiraz, 21 October 1621, 786

Letter XVI, Shiraz, 27 July 1622, 829

Letter XVII, Combru, 29 November, 1622, 949

Letter XVIII, from the ship Balena,

18 January, 1623, 1017

Part III

Letter IX, Masqat, 19 January 1625, 1041

Letter X, Basra, 20 May, 1625, 1046

Chronology of Pietro della Valle’s

Itinerary in Persia, 1083

Bibliography, 1087

Index, 1104

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  • Date de parution

    20 janvier 2026

  • EAN13

    9781949445992

  • Langue

    English

  • Poids de l'ouvrage

    7 Mo

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