{"product_id":"9786256994034","title":"The Emiriad","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe\nyear was 1453. Soon after he had conquered Constantinople, an event that would\nchange the entire history of the East and West, the determined young Turkish Sultan\/Emir\nMehmet II, only 21 years old, victoriously entered the city. Among the captives\nwas a Latin named Angelo Boldoni, Ambassador of Ancona, Italy. However, as soon\nas Mehmet learned that Boldoni was a relative of Othman Lillo Ferducci, the son\nof his father Murat II's close friend,\nBoldoni was released without ransom. Othman Ferducci's gratitude for Mehmet's\ngenerous gesture was expressed years later by his commissioning (and writing a\nDedication to) an epic poem in praise of Mehmet’s conquests and adventures, an\nepic in the tradition of the \u003ci\u003eAeneid, Iliad, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e.\nThe commission was given to the poet Gian Mario Filelfo, biographer of Dante\nand son of one of the leading humanists of the Renaissance, Francesco Filelfo.\nAnd so \u003ci\u003eAmyris\u003c\/i\u003e, a poem of about five\nthousand lines, was completed in Italy in 1476.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmyris\u003c\/i\u003e has remained in obscurity as a single\nmanuscript copy, virtually a banned book, for centuries, perhaps because,\nunlike most other Western writings during the Renaissance, it is not wholly\nderogatory toward a Turkish and Muslim Sultan. Now, approximately 550 years\nafter the poem’s composition, Associate Professors Filiz Barın Akman and\nBeyazıt Akman publish annotated Turkish and English translations of the poem,\ntogether with comprehensive introductory chapters offering historical\ninformation, textual analysis, commentary and criticism. The Akmans are experts\nabout the image of the Turks and Islam in Western literature and\nhistoriography. The translation from Latin into English poetry is by Mark Herman\nand Professor Emerita Ronnie Apter and the Turkish translation is by Ahmet\nDeniz Altunbaş.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kopernik INC.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65419999412573,"sku":null,"price":30.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9786256994034.jpg?v=1789729956","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9786256994034","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}