1st Edition

The Travels of Marco Polo

By L. F. Benedetto Copyright 2005
464 Pages
by Routledge

474 Pages
by Routledge

488 Pages
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First published in 1931. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents 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... Read more
Illustrations , Introduction, The Travels of Marco Polo, How Messer Niccolò and Messer Matteo left Con?tantinople to explore the world, Annotated Index, Index, Addeda and Corrigenda to Index

Biography

L. F. Benedetto