The travels of Marco Polo /
First published in 1931. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represent the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
RoutledgeCurzon,
2005.
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| Series: | Broadway travellers ;
25. |
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| Summary: | First published in 1931. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represent the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones. · An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic tex. |
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| Item Description: | Facsim. of ed. published: 1931. Translated from the Italian. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 439 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 409) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203340647 9780203340646 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |