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100 1 _aDe Filippi, Filippo,
_d1814-1867
245 1 0 _aNote di un viaggio in Persia nel 1862
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-22
508 _aBarbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Biblioteca Nacional de España.)
520 _a"Note di un viaggio in Persia nel 1862" by Filippo De Filippi is a scientific travel account written in the mid-19th century. It chronicles an Italian diplomatic mission to Persia while doubling as a naturalist’s field record of geology, zoology, landscapes, and peoples from the Mediterranean, through Constantinople and the Caucasus, to Iran. The narrative blends route descriptions with keen scientific collecting and occasional political and economic reflections. It will appeal to readers who enjoy exploration narratives grounded in careful observation. The opening of the travelogue lays out the diplomatic purpose and the embassy’s mixed makeup—diplomatic, military, scientific, and commercial—then follows the departure from Genoa and a sea passage past Stromboli and Messina to Constantinople, alive with sketches of volcanic sights, phosphorescent waters, and waves of migrating birds. In Constantinople the party reorganizes, hires a Persian dragoman, and shifts to a larger steamer for the Black Sea, enduring rough weather and stopping at Ineboli, Sinope, Samsun, and Trebizond, where the author notes barren shores and thin marine life. Transferring to a Russian vessel, they reach Batum and Poti: malarial rice flats and primeval Colchian forests trigger both specimen collecting (fish and mollusks) and vivid digressions—on dolphins, a catastrophic anchovy event at Balaklava, and a re-reading of the “Golden Fleece” as the region’s unrealized agricultural wealth. The section closes with the ascent of the Rioni to Marani, cordial assistance from Russian officials (including a dedicated guide, Captain Romanoff), and a practical primer on Caucasian travel—telegas and tarantasses, bare-bones post stations, and the necessity of self-sufficiency. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMilano: Daelli & C., 1865
653 _aIran -- Description and travel
856 4 _uhttp://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000000898
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76141
999 _c116866
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