Travels to Tana and Persia, and A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the 15th and 16th Centuries

This volume contains six narratives by Venetian diplomats of travel to Persia in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Giosofat Barbaro (Author), Henry Edward John Stanley (Edited by), Charles Grey (Edited by), William Thomas (Translated by), Eugene Armand Roy (Translated by)

9781108010818, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 April 2010

448 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.57 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume contains six narratives by Venetian diplomats of travel to Persia in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Barbaro's account is given in a sixteenth-century translation; the others were made for this edition. These stories of travel, by land and by sea, to distant destinations are full of engaging detail about the customs of the countries visited, and also about the negotiations by which the Venetian Signoria and Uzun Hassan, the ruler of Persia, tried to form an alliance against the Ottoman Turks.

Introduction
Translator's letter to Edward VI
Travels of Josafa Barbaro
Travels of Ambrosio Contarini
Index
Travels in Persia by Caterino Zeno
A short narrative of the life and acts of the king Ussun Cassano by Giovan Maria Angiolello
The travels of a merchant in Persia
Narrative of the most noble Vincentio d'Allessandri
Index.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]