García de Silva Figueroa

De Silva's embassy was Philip III's return to the two Abbas I had sent to him shortly before, one of them in the person of the Englishman Robert Shirley and the other in the ones of the Persian Dengiz Beg and the Portuguese Augustinian friar Antonio de Gouvea.

During his stay in Persia, De Silva dealt with various diplomatic issues of importance, including the sealing of an alliance against the Ottoman Empire, a longstanding enemy of the three powers involved: Persia, Portugal and Spain.

De Silva travelled extensively throughout Persia, visiting the cities of

On his travels, De Silva had amassed a large collection of rare art objects; these he tried to take home with him to Spain when his sojourn ended in 1619. He wrote a full account of his travels under the title Totius legationis suae et Indicarum rerum Persidisque commentarii. It was translated into French by the

García de Silva y Figueroa becomes the star of the horror and mystery story Denn die Toten segeln schnell ("Because the dead sail quickly"), by the Spanish writer Salomé Guadalupe Ingelmo. The text is part of the anthology Lo Siniestro.[1]

See also

• Robert Shirley
• Thomas Shirley
• Anthony Shirley

References

Bibliography

• De Silva Figueroa, Garcia (1667), L'Ambassade de D. Garcias de Silva Figueroa en Perse..., translated by De Wicquefort, Abraham
  , Paris: Louis Billaine.
• Serrano Sanz, M., ed. (1903). Comentarios de Don García de Silva y Figueroa de la embajada que de parte del rey de España don Felipe III hizo al rey Xa Abas de Persia (in Spanish). Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles.
• Gil, Luis (1989). Epistolario diplomático de D. García De Silva y Figueroa (in Spanish). Institución Cultural El Brocense.
  ISBN 84-86854-23-7
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• Alonso, Carlos (1993). La embajada a Persia de D. García De Silva y Figueroa (1612-1624) (in Spanish). Diputación Provincial de Badajoz.
  ISBN 84-7796-851-9
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