« Further Thoughts on an Enigma: The Tortuous Life of Nicolò Manucci, 1638-c. 1720 ». The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2008, p. 35-76.
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Colin P. Mitchell, « « Further Thoughts on an Enigma: The Tortuous Life of Nicolò Manucci, 1638-c. 1720 ». The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2008, p. 35-76. », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.39594
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The four-volume travel account (Storia del Mogor) of Nicolò Manucci has long been considered a primary source of critical importance in 17th-century Mughal studies. Employed initially under the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh and other nobility, and then later interacting with the Portuguese and the English, the Venetian Manucci is profiled in this article by Sanjay Subrahmanyam as one of those rare, cultural “go-betweens”, or passeurs culturels, who are situated in the liminal spaces of early mode...