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Book Synopsis Marco Polo the Description of the World Volume 2 in Latin by A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot by : Marco Polo
Download or read book Marco Polo the Description of the World Volume 2 in Latin by A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot written by Marco Polo and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco Polo The Description of the World Volume II as Transcribed in the Original Latin by A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot This is by far the most complete and most authoritative transcription of the work of Marco Polo (1254-1324). It was discovered in the Cathedral de Toledo in Spain. It bears the date M.CC.XCVIII, which is 1298. In that year, Marco Polo was a prisoner in Genoa. He dictated his description of the world to a fellow prisoner, Rustichello da Pisa. It was then translated from the language of the common tongue into Latin by Francis Pipino of Bologna of the Order of Brothers Preachers. Francis Pipino explains that the need for this translation is that Latin is more widely understood than the common spoken tongue and the common tongue is offensive to some. He further states that he has personally spoken to the father of Marco Polo and has confirmed the accuracy of what is written here. Francis Pipino also states that when the Uncle of Marco Polo was at the point of death, he was asked by his confessor if the statements in this manuscript were true. He replied that they were true. This confession at the point of death just prior to his meeting with God is regarded as proof of the accuracy of the statements in this book. This translation into Latin was written during the lifetime of Marco Polo by a man who personally knew him and must be regarded as most authoritative. It is important to study this Latin original text, even among those of us who do not know Latin. This is because we need to know for sure exactly the names of the places where Marco Polo visited. Although many places retain their original names, some times a place has been named because that is the name given to it by Marco Polo.
Book Synopsis The Description of the World [translated and Annotated By] A.C. Moule & Paul Pelliot; 1 by : Marco 1254-1323? Polo
Download or read book The Description of the World [translated and Annotated By] A.C. Moule & Paul Pelliot; 1 written by Marco 1254-1323? Polo and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Description of the World [translated and Annotated By] A.C. Moule & Paul Pelliot; 1 by : Marco 1254-1323? Polo
Download or read book The Description of the World [translated and Annotated By] A.C. Moule & Paul Pelliot; 1 written by Marco 1254-1323? Polo and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Marco Polo the Description of the World A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot by : Marco Polo
Download or read book Marco Polo the Description of the World A. C. Moule and Paul Pelliot written by Marco Polo and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is by far the most complete and most authoritative translation of the work of Marco Polo (1254-1324). It is based on a manuscript found by Sir Percival David (1892-1964) in the Catedral de Toledo in Spain where it had lain forgotten for 130 years. That manuscript was a copy written in 1795 and was in turn based on a manuscript written in about 1400. The manuscript in Cathedral de Toledo is in Latin. Arthur Christopher Moule (1873-1957) painstakingly transcribed it into type written text. He was so careful to be faithful to the original that he even transcribed meaningless punctuation marks. The Latin text was published as Volume 2 in 1935, even though it was published first. Volume One followed three years later and was published in 1938. After first publishing the Latin original, A. C. Moule went to work translating the Latin into English. Here he gives credit to his predecessors, Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557) and Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899). Yule's work was published by his daughter in 1903. A. C. Moule was gratified when his translations often came out the same as theirs. A. C. Moule took 17 different versions of the Marco Polo manuscripts. He then combined them into one document by putting into italics those words that are not found in the other versions. Then, on the outside margins and sometimes in the footnotes, he uses a code to show where and in which version the words in italics can be found. He was careful to note the differences. Every word that is different from the words of Ramusio or Yule is put in italics. In addition, there is a chart showing where the page numbers to this work are different from the page numbers of the other translations. Thus, a reader looking at a page of this book can quickly find the equivalent page in the Yule work.
Book Synopsis Did Marco Polo Go to China? by : Frances Wood
Download or read book Did Marco Polo Go to China? written by Frances Wood and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1995 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco Polo's book The Description of the World is one of the classics of medieval literature, describing his epic journey to China and subsequent return to Italy. He has become a cultural icon bridging East and West, his name known by adults and children alike. Frances Wood's fascinating piece of historical detective work, marking the 700th anniversary of Polo's journey, questions whether the explorer ever reached the country he so vividly described. Why, within his romantic and detailed account, is there no mention of such fundamental aspects of Chinese life as tea or foot-binding, or even the Great Wall? Did Polo really bring noodles and ice-cream back to Italy? And why is there no record of the Polo family in China itself?
Book Synopsis The Description of the World by : Marco Polo
Download or read book The Description of the World written by Marco Polo and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes on Marco Polo by : Paul Pelliot
Download or read book Notes on Marco Polo written by Paul Pelliot and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imagining the World by : O. R. Dathorne
Download or read book Imagining the World written by O. R. Dathorne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-03-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, a race of Amazons, and monster (including cannibal) images were first associated with the Orient. After the New World encounter they were repositioned to North and South America. The book examines the way in which Arabs and Africans are conscripted into the view of the world and takes an unusual, non-Eurocentric viewpoint of how Africans journeyed to the New World and Europe, participating in, what may be considered, an early stage of world exploration and discovery. The study concludes by looking at European travel literature from the early journeys of St. Brendan, through the Viking voyages and up to Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville. In all these instances, the encounters seem to justify mythical belief. Dathorne's interest in the subject is both intellectual and passionate since, coming from Guyana, he was very much part of this malformed Weltschmerz.
Book Synopsis Notes on Marco Polo by : Paul Pelliot
Download or read book Notes on Marco Polo written by Paul Pelliot and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of China: Volume 6, Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368 by : Denis C. Twitchett
Download or read book The Cambridge History of China: Volume 6, Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368 written by Denis C. Twitchett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; and the Mongolian Yüan dynasty.
Book Synopsis Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630 by : Jennifer Robin Goodman
Download or read book Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630 written by Jennifer Robin Goodman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of medieval knighthood is shown to have influenced exploration narratives from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith. Explorers from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith viewed their travels and discoveries in the light of attitudes they absorbed from the literature of medieval knighthood. Their own accounts, and contemporary narratives [reinforced by the interest of early printers], reveal this interplay, but historians of exploration on the one hand, and of chivalry on the other, have largely ignored this cultural connection. Jennifer Goodman convincingly develops the ideaof the chivalric romance as an imaginative literature of travel; she traces the publication of medieval chivalric texts alongside exploration narratives throughout the later middle ages and renaissance, and reveals parallel themesand preoccupations. She illustrates this with the histories of a sequence of explorers and their links with chivalry, from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith, and including Gadifer de la Salle and his expedition to the Canary Islands, Prince Henry the Navigator, Cortés, Hakluyt, and Sir Walter Raleigh. JENNIFER GOODMAN teaches at Texas A & M University.
Book Synopsis Postmodern Medievalisms by : Richard J. Utz
Download or read book Postmodern Medievalisms written by Richard J. Utz and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, together they indicate, broadly, directions both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism.
Book Synopsis In the Footsteps of Marco Polo by : Denis Belliveau
Download or read book In the Footsteps of Marco Polo written by Denis Belliveau and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as they sought the answer to this controversial 700-year-old question. With Polo's book, The Travels of Marco Polo, as their guide, they journeyed over 25,000 miles becoming the first to retrace his entire path by land and sea without resorting to helicopters or airplanes. Surviving deadly skirmishes and capture in Afghanistan, they were the first Westerners in a generation to cross its ancient forgotten passageway to China, the Wakhan Corridor. Their camel caravan on the southern Silk Road encountered the deadly singing sands of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. In Sumatra, where Polo was stranded waiting for trade winds, they lived with the Mentawai tribes, whose culture has remained unchanged since the Bronze Age. They became among the first Americans granted visas to enter Iran, where Polo fulfilled an important mission for Kublai Khan. Accompanied by 200 stunning full-color photographs, the text provides a fascinating account of the lands and peoples the two hardy adventurers encountered during their perilous journey. The authors' experiences are remarkably similar to descriptions from Polo's account of his own travels and life. Laden with adventure, humor, diplomacy, history, and art, this book is compelling proof that travel is the enemy of bigotry—a truth that resonates from Marco Polo's time to our own.
Book Synopsis Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491) by : Chet Van Duzer
Download or read book Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491) written by Chet Van Duzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility. Multispectral imaging of the map, performed with NEH support in 2014, rendered its texts legible for the first time, leading to renewed study of the map by the author. This volume provides transcriptions, translations, and commentary on the Latin texts on the map, particularly their sources, as well as the place names in several regions. This leads to a demonstration of a very close relationship between the Martellus map and Martin Waldseemüller’s famous map of 1507. One of the most exciting discoveries on the map is in the hinterlands of southern Africa. The information there comes from African sources; the map is thus a unique and supremely important document regarding African cartography in the fifteenth century. This book is essential reading for digital humanitarians and historians of cartography.
Book Synopsis The Description of the World by : Marco Polo
Download or read book The Description of the World written by Marco Polo and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Witness and the Other World by : Mary Baine Campbell
Download or read book The Witness and the Other World written by Mary Baine Campbell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination.Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims, crusaders, merchants, discoverers, even armchair fantasists such as Mandeville, as well as the writings of Marco Polo, Columbus, and Walter Raleigh. According to Campbell, these travel accounts are exotic because they bear witness to alienated experiences; European travelers, while claiming to relate fact, were often passing on monstrous projections. She contends that their writing not only documented but also made possible the conquest of the peoples whom she travelers described, and she shows how travel literature contributed to the genesis of the modern novel and the modern life sciences.
Book Synopsis Voyager from Xanadu by : Morris Rossabi
Download or read book Voyager from Xanadu written by Morris Rossabi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Voyager from Xanadu, a distinguished historian tells the little-known story of the life and travels of the first person from China ever to reach Europe. Portraying one of the most remarkable early encounters between East and West, Morris Rossabi also brings to life the intriguing and turbulent era of the Mongol Empire and the last Crusades. Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo arrived in China, a Christian monk, Rabban Sauma, left it, embarking on a journey that would prove more momentous than he could have dreamed. What began as a religious pilgrimage to the Middle East (supported by the Mongol Emperor, Khubilai Khan) ultimately became an extraordinary diplomatic mission. After several years' eventful stay in Persia, Sauma was dispatched to Europe by Persia's Mongol ruler, the Ilkhan. The monk's task: to persuade the Pope and the Kings of France and England to ally with the Ilkhan and launch a Crusade against their common enemy, the Muslim dynasty that controlled the Holy Land. The mission was a striking early instance of geopolitics on a modern scale. Voyager from Xanadu vividly conjures up the places Sauma visited as he crossed two continents, meeting with monarchs and prelates and seeing everything from a battle to a volcanic eruption to countless grisly relics of long-dead saints. It provides a clear and penetrating analysis of the volatile international situation of the era and its impact on Sauma's embassy. And, of course, Voyager from Xanadu traces the life of an exceptional man, from his comfortable youth, through his unique adventures, to his death far from the land of his birth.
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