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CERULLI, Enrico
Filippo Bertotti
(born Naples, 15 February 1898; died 1988), Italian orientalist and diplomat.
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CONTARINI, AMBROGIO
Filippo Bertotti
(1429-99), Venetian merchant and diplomat, author of a noteworthy report on Persia under the Āq Qoyunlū Uzun Ḥasan.
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FILIPPI, FILIPPO DE
Anna Vanzan
(1814-1867), a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Turin University.
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Italy xi. TRANSLATIONS OF PERSIAN WORKS INTO ITALIAN
Mario Casari
The period of Italian translations of Persian literary works from the Islamic era began, and not by accident, in the post-Risorgimento (Italian unification) age (1880s) with epic poetry.
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Italy iii. CULTURAL RELATIONS
Mario Casari
during the Middle Ages, when Italy and Persia were not clearly definable cultural entities, the translated works of significant Persian literature had a great influence on Italian and European culture.
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Italy vii. IRANIAN STUDIES, ISLAMIC PERIOD
Mario Casari
The earliest known references to Persia by Italian writers are gleaned from numerous notes in the oldest medieval travel accounts, dating from the 13th century onwards.
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Italy xii. TRANSLATIONS OF ITALIAN WORKS INTO PERSIAN
MARIO CASARI
Two texts by Italian authors appear to be the first known translations of European literary works into Persian carried out in the modern age.
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Italy viii. PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS
Paola Orsatti
Italy houses 439 Persian manuscripts in two public archives and thirty public libraries located in fifteen different cities.
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Italy iv. TRAVEL ACCOUNTS
Michele Bernardini, Anna Vanzan
Italian travel accounts represent a major source for the history of Iran, especially that of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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DELLA VALLE, PIETRO
John Gurney
(b. Rome, 11 April 1586, d. Rome, 21 April 1652), one of the most remarkable travelers of the Renaissance, whose Viaggi is the best contemporary account of the lands between Istanbul and Goa in the early 17th century.
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STEIN, (Marc) Aurel
Susan Whitfield
(1862-1943), Sir, Hungarian–British archeologist and explorer, was born in Pest, Hungary and died in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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FISH i. FRESHWATER FISHES
Brian W. Coad
With about 1,800 km of coastline along the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, and about 990 km on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, plus some inland fresh waters, Persia has a great variety of aquatic fauna: mollusks, crustaceans, chelonians, mammals, and especially fishes.
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MAMMALS i. Mammals of Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
Steven C. Anderson
an account of mammals in history, literature, biodiversity, and biogeography.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY iii. EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD
Elton L. Daniel
It might be questioned whether there is, strictly speaking, any “historiography of Persia in the early Islamic period” at all, since it is by no means clear that there was an Islamic “Persia” prior to the rise of the Safavids.
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FAUNA i. FAUNA OF PERSIA
Steven Anderson
the assemblage of animal species, generally excluding domestic animals, living within a defined geographical area or ecological zone.