Dahaka means the snake that bites. In the naturalistic sense, it is the aerial monster that, according to the primitive concepts of a naturalistic re… - Italo Pizzi

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.

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 not yet been impregnated by the Muslim doctrines, and still felt the beneficial strength of the ancient religion of Zoroastro, infiant, energetic and, after Christianity.

If it was rightly said that India gave the world the priests, and that Greece and Rome gave the civil man, no less rightly it can be said that Persia gave instead the type of man who believes, who works, who fights.