A newsletter sent to the Tuscan court from Venice, dated 12 February 1600, carried the following report, no doubt intended to raise some eyebrows: "From Constantinople they write that an ambassador had arrived at the imperial gate [i.e., the Sublime Porte] and this ambassador was discovered to be a very astute and wise Persian woman, sent by the King of Persia". The paper considers the significance of the news. https://www.euronewsproject.org/2023/07/31/a-special-ambassador-from-persia/