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As for breadth, all other epics yield by far to the Book of Kings of Firdusi, finding that the <nowiki>'</nowiki>Iliad' and the<nowiki>'</nowiki>'Ody… - Italo Pizzi
" "As for breadth, all other epics yield by far to the Book of Kings of Firdusi, finding that the <nowiki>'</nowiki>Iliad' and the<nowiki>'</nowiki>'Odyssey are restricted to two single facts, one before, the other after the This same thing can be said of the Nibelungen of the Germans and the Kalevala of the Finns; and only the <nowiki>'</nowiki>Edda' of the Scandinavians could be an exception, starting from the origin of all things and descending then to narrate the facts of the Gods, the Giant [...] But the greatest value of the Book of Kings, for which it acquires great importance, is to be a national epic, an epic that is, the subject of which was not found and elaborated by a poet in the silence of his room and with the escort of his books, such as the Jerusalem and the <nowiki>'</nowiki>
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Italo Pizzi (C.E.1849 - 1920), Italian Iranian and academic.
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It can be said that every elegy of Mimnermo is marked by the darkest pessimism. For him, what is life worth? It has value as long as the beautiful youth lasts, after which, ceases all enjoyment for the mortal. He undergoes old age, laborious at the will of the Gods, while a thousand and a thousand afflictions afflict man in his short earthly career.
We, long bred in the ideas of classical culture, because we know that the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon, at Thermopylae, at Salamis, we also aged ourselves to consider these people as a bunch of cowards taken to the slaughter by the ambition of a tyrant, while it is also known that they, in those battles, fought as va Herodotus himself makes it, with praise, beautiful and open testimony, nor, bear in mind that, they were all Persians or Iranians the soldiers that Darius and Xerxes were then with them; he was, on the other hand, an infinite bevy, ill-ordered, of distant and very different people. Alexander, it is true, took the kingdom from Dario Codomanno, but and Darius and his people, while yielding, yielded as valiant; and the Arabs who in the seventh century of our Era invaded Iran and destroyed the ancient empire in 650, certainly did not enter without a blow injuring the rich and glorious country, even if the kingdom was torn.
He is not subject to sleep, but he sees and hears everything, he is omniscient, and nothing in heaven or earth can escape him. He is armed with a club, and with it, well fused and well-savve, he goes sweaping the armies of demons and all those who deny him, whose weapons are thrown in vain by them at him.
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