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Iranian scholar Rota spent 1999-2003 in Venice poring through local archives and libraries, and here relates what he discovered about what Venetians knew, or thought they knew, about Persia when the city was independent and one of the most powerful trading centers in that part of the world. He is interested in what the information was and how they got it, but not so much in what they did with it. After reviewing the historical background he discusses merchants as informants, Venetian persophilia and international politics, and the teaching of the Persian language in Venice. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
