It is not [...] to wonder if the memory of the Achaemenids has completely disappeared from the minds of the people who did not know them and did not … - Italo Pizzi

The Ancients [...] almost all made great praises of the Iranians. They praised his tall and beautiful person and his dignified and noble appearance. Herodotus certainly speaks of their decent and great bearing; Aeschylo notices their beautiful and thick skin; Diodorus is pleased to describe the manly beauty of some of them. The Arabs of the Middle Ages used to say that those who wish to have brave and soulful children must take a woman from Persia as a wife. And, after all, in all that strong predilection that the Iranians, according to the Greek and Roman writers, have always had for everything that is chivalrous, noble, elected, as are noble horses, noble dog suits, jurs and exercises in the gym and in hunting, sumptuous palaces and gardens, drapes, gems, perfumes, sumptuous ornaments The same sacred book attributed to Zoroaster, the 'Avesta', commands and orders every pious man to honestly enjoy life and his possessions, as long as he does not exceed anything, as a precious gift of the Creator. The same book proclaims sovereign art among all agriculture, and the Iranians have always been, and still are, of the most diligent and diligent farmers in Asia.

It belongs to the historian to say worthily of this great prince and to judge him in political and warrior, administrative and civil respect. It is enough for us to note how all antiquity praises it very high, not excluding the Greeks, as can be seen from the pages of Aeschylus and Herodotus.

Three moments of maximum splendor had the Iranian culture and civilization, and these are pted and added up, so to speak, in three equally glorious and illustrious names that are Zarathustra, Dario, Firdusi. The first two belong to the ancient age, and one is a great legislator, also the founder of a novel religion; the other is a great prince, unifier of the patrio kingdom. He belongs to the third to the Middle Ages, and is a great poet, worthy of standing next to the majors of the West.