The travels of Marco Polo / edited and with an introduction by Milton Rugoff ; with a new afterword by Howard Mittelmark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?, author.

Contributor:

Rugoff, Milton, 1913-

Series:

Broadway travellers.

The broadway travellers

Standardized Title:

Travels of Marco Polo. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?.

Polo, Marco.

Voyages and travels.

Mongols--History.

Mongols.

Asia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 p.)

Edition:

First Signet Classics print.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Signet Classics, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Illustrations; Introduction; The Travels of Marco Polo; How Messer Niccolò and Messer Matteo left Conśtantinople to explore the world; Annotated Index; Index; Addeda and Corrigenda to Index

Notes:

First published 1931 by RoutledgeCurzon.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 14, 2014).

ISBN:

1-134-28465-9

1-134-28466-7

1-280-29127-3

9786610291274

0-203-34064-7

9780203340646

OCLC:

876507327