چکیده:
The second earliest published contemporary account that mentions and discusses Shah Esmaʿil I, the founder of the Safavid dynasty, his family, his rise to power, as well as his Qezelbash followers was a report published in Italian in 1506. This article offers a translation and an analysis of this report, plus four letters that are attached to this report which shed light on the role that the Sophy played in European anti-Ottoman politics
خلاصه ماشینی:
It is a place from where we receive much raw silk [called] canari, thalani, and mamodeni, 1 which he unexpectedly immediately won, sacked and burnt it with fire and flames rather than that he miraculously took it with the men that were with him given that the city and land should have been sufficiently [able] to withstand a large and powerful army of more than three thousand horsemen.
He put it into proper order and marched against Tabriz and when he was near it he called the Sophy to the battlefield; in accordance with the ancient custom of the armies of that land, who never attack farmed lands [around the cities] and do not destroy and damage them, but always fight in the countryside and whoever is victorious there Although European authors continued to refer to Safavid soldiers as Persians, they were mostly Turkic tribesmen, see Sumer 1371.
1 It now came to pass that Morat Can [sic; Morad Khan] learnt that his first cousin king Alvand had died - also called his nephew - to whom he had ceded the rule of Tabriz by agreement, while he had taken the rule of a most noble city in Persia named Siras [sic; Shiraz], 2 which [is known] for its very fine steel, and where are all kinds of splendid arms are made, be it for men or horse, about which I feel unable to satisfactorily have an opinion.