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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
Voyages and travels. --- Mongols --- Journeys --- Travel books --- Travels --- Trips --- Voyages and travels --- Geography --- Adventure and adventurers --- Travel --- Travelers --- History. --- Polo, Marco, --- Marco Polo --- Polo, Marco --- マルコ・ポーロ --- ポーロ, マルコ --- 馬可波羅 --- Asia --- Description and travel
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In Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel offers an innovative look at the highly complex topics of currencies, salt production and taxes, commercial levies and other kinds of revenue as well as the administrative geography of the Mongol Yuan empire. The author’s rigorous analysis of Chinese sources and all the important Marco Polo manuscripts as well as his thorough scrutiny of Japanese, Chinese and Western scholarship show that the fascinating information contained in Le devisament dou monde agrees almost pefectly with that we find in Chinese sources, the latter only available long after Marco Polo’s stay in China. Hence, the author concludes that, despite the doubts that have been raised, the Venetian was indeed in Khubilai Khan’s realm.
Money --- Taxation --- Salt --- History --- History. --- Polo, Marco, --- S03/0230 --- S10/0300 --- China: Geography, description and travel--Marco Polo --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Money and banking: general and before 1911 --- Brine --- Halite --- Sodium chloride --- Table salt --- Chlorides --- Halide minerals --- Sodium salts --- Taxation&delete& --- Bolo, Margo, --- Mārkkōpōlō, --- Paulo, Marco, --- Pavlov z Benátek, Marko, --- Pavlov, Marko, --- Polo, Marko, --- Поло, Марко, --- Ma-kʻo-po-lo, --- Paulus, Marcus, --- Marcus Paulus, --- Marco Polo, --- Po-lo, Ma-kʻo, --- Makeboluo, --- Marcus, --- 馬可波羅, --- 馬哥孛羅, --- E-books --- Marco Polo --- Polo, Marco --- マルコ・ポーロ --- ポーロ, マルコ --- 馬可波羅
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Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East" sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings. These writers argue that Marco Polo's experiences along the Silk Road should instead be considered a fertile interaction of cultural exchange. The volume begins with detailed studies of Marco Polo's narrative in its many medieval forms (including French, Italian, and Latin versions). They place the text in its material and generic contexts, and situate Marco Polo's account within the conventions of travel literature and manuscript illumination. Other essays consider the appropriation of Marco Polo's narrative in adaptations, translation, and cinematic art. The concluding section presents historiographic and poetic accounts of the place of Marco Polo in the context of a global world literature. By considering the production and reception of The Travels, this collection lays the groundwork for new histories of world literature written from the perspective of cultural, economic, and linguistic exchange, rather than conquest and conflict.
East and West. --- Travelers' writings --- Travel, Medieval. --- Geography, Medieval. --- Orient et Occident. --- Écrits de voyageurs --- Voyage --- Géographie médiévale. --- Geography --- Medieval geography --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Polo, Marco, --- Marco Polo --- Polo, Marco --- マルコ・ポーロ --- ポーロ, マルコ --- 馬可波羅 --- Travels of Marco Polo (Polo, Marco) --- Livres des merveilles du monde (Polo, Marco) --- Divisament du monde (Polo, Marco) --- Description of the world (Polo, Marco) --- Milione (Polo, Marco) --- Delle maravigliose cose del mondo (Polo, Marco) --- Ecrits de voyageurs --- Geographie medievale.
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