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Marco Polo : espion de Venise.
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ISBN: 2258012651 9782258012653 Year: 1983 Publisher: Presses de la Cité

The travels of Marco Polo
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ISBN: 1134284667 1280291273 9786610291274 0203340647 9780203340646 9781134284665 9781134284610 9781134284658 9780415344876 9780415612159 1134284659 Year: 2005 Publisher: London New York RoutledgeCurzon

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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


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Gregorio magno e il suo mondo
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ISBN: 8834304748 9788834304747 Year: 2001 Volume: 22 Publisher: Milano : Vita e Pensiero,


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Marco Polo was in China
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ISBN: 9789004231931 9789004236981 9004236988 9004231935 1283855127 9781283855129 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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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.


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Marco Polo : à la découverte du monde
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ISBN: 9782723459679 Year: 2007 Volume: *1 Publisher: Grenoble : [Paris] : Glénat ; Société de géographie,


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Il Milione : introduzione, edizione del testo toscano ("Ottimo"), note illustrative, esegetiche, linguistiche repertori onomastici e lessicali.
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ISBN: 8822234650 9788822234650 Year: 1986 Volume: 200 Publisher: Firenze Olschki


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Marco Polo and the encounter of east and west
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ISBN: 9780802099280 0802099289 1442688580 1442693282 Year: 2008 Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press,

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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.

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