Suchergebnisse

The diplomatic relations between the Medici Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Safavid Persia constitute a very interesting subject of study in the context of deepening of relations between Europe and what was called the 'Levant.' Although there were never any practical political or commercial consequences, the analysis of the Medicis' 'Persian diplomacy' may still reveal something about diplomacy in the early modern period, its practices and, more generally, how Europe and Persia 'looked at' and related to each other. The documentation produced by the grand ducal secretariat in the course of more than a century of roughly regular interaction is incredibly rich and varied and even if some of it is already known, a very large part of it remains unexploited.The main aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the genesis and development of diplomatic relations between Tuscany and Persia in the seventeenth century through careful and scrupulous archive research and the continuous comparison of manuscript and printed sources with recent studies. The aim is to frame these relations within a broader Mediterranean and global context in which knowledge, the ability to gather information and, to a certain extent, the ambition to be able to project oneself beyond one's own 'local' dimension, also played an important role. In addition to an in-depth analysis of Medici-Safavid diplomacy in the strict sense, the research also aims to provide a new 'case study' of modern diplomacy, its practices and networks. Finally, thanks to the identification of unpublished documentation, its comparative analysis with that which is known (and a reinterpretation of this through new perspectives) and the publication of several documents in the thesis, the research also aims to provide a solid corpus of sources on which to base further future research work. ; Les rapports diplomatiques entre le Grand-Duché de Toscane des Médicis et la Perse safavide au XVIIe siècle constituent un sujet d'étude très intéressant concernant l'approfondissement des relations ...

The diplomatic relations between the Medici Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Safavid Persia constitute a very interesting subject of study in the context of deepening of relations between Europe and what was called the 'Levant.' Although there were never any practical political or commercial consequences, the analysis of the Medicis' 'Persian diplomacy' may still reveal something about diplomacy in the early modern period, its practices and, more generally, how Europe and Persia 'looked at' and related to each other. The documentation produced by the grand ducal secretariat in the course of more than a century of roughly regular interaction is incredibly rich and varied and even if some of it is already known, a very large part of it remains unexploited.The main aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the genesis and development of diplomatic relations between Tuscany and Persia in the seventeenth century through careful and scrupulous archive research and the continuous comparison of manuscript and printed sources with recent studies. The aim is to frame these relations within a broader Mediterranean and global context in which knowledge, the ability to gather information and, to a certain extent, the ambition to be able to project oneself beyond one's own 'local' dimension, also played an important role. In addition to an in-depth analysis of Medici-Safavid diplomacy in the strict sense, the research also aims to provide a new 'case study' of modern diplomacy, its practices and networks. Finally, thanks to the identification of unpublished documentation, its comparative analysis with that which is known (and a reinterpretation of this through new perspectives) and the publication of several documents in the thesis, the research also aims to provide a solid corpus of sources on which to base further future research work. ; Les rapports diplomatiques entre le Grand-Duché de Toscane des Médicis et la Perse safavide au XVIIe siècle constituent un sujet d'étude très intéressant concernant l'approfondissement des relations ...