This great prince, to whom the West owes not a few things, acquired a beautiful glory of righteousness, so much so that he was long celebrated as suc… - Italo Pizzi

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This great prince, to whom the West owes not a few things, acquired a beautiful glory of righteousness, so much so that he was long celebrated as such in the Persian and Arab novels, protected the arts and letters, welcomed to his canteen the philosophers that Justinian emperor had driven out of Constantino Thus, for him, it began that literary movement that four centuries later, or a little more, had to put head to the poetic composition of it book by the work of Firdusi.

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Italo Pizzi (C.E.1849 - 1920), Italian Iranian and academic.

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The name Ahura, like the name of Yahveh that the Bible gives to the God of Israel, means Being, that is, Being par excellence; and it is obvious to understand that such a concept, high and sublime, mere and pure metaphysical abstraction, can only proceed from an elected speculative mind, can belong to the And would this idea come to Zarathustra from the Semites, indeed from the Jews?

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