The Book of Kings is a faithful image of the ingenuity, soul and heart of the Persian people, if not of our times, at least of that age when he had n… - Italo Pizzi

If the Homeric poems are a faithful mirror of the heroic life of the Greeks, of the feelings and ideas of that age, the Book of Kings is no less the faithful image of the soul, heart and ingenuity of the Persian people. (pp. X-XI)

It does not have you in the world the richest country of Persia in heroic legends.

He has all the attributes of a most high God, because he is omniscient, very wise, custodian and defender of his creatures, inaccessible to deception because he sees and knows everything, creator of light, of men and of the so-s callous heifer that is, as you will see, the His throne stands in the highest heaven, and he sits there surrounded by celestial militias. The latter concept is common, it can be said, to almost all religions; but the attributes now enumerated are of a philosophical and theological nature, such that Ahura Mazdao approach it to the Semitic god, to the Yahveh in particular of the Jews, while they diverge him from any other Indo-European god to whom, usually, they must always, or

Although he was a Muslim of religion and although he had to live in times, in which of the ancient and glorious Persia only the name remained, he could, however, he alone, understand all the glory and the inherient and warlike nature of his homeland. (p. 123)