The Commentaries of D. Garc??De Silva Y Figueroa on His Embassy to Shah ?abbas 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.

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.