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It was Benedetto who identified Rustichello da Pisa, [41] as the original compiler or amanuensis, and his established text has provided the basis for many modern translations: his own in Italian (1932), and Aldo Ricci's The Travels of Marco Polo (London, 1931). The first English translation is the Elizabethan version by John Frampton published ...
The first English translation is the Elizabethan version by John Frampton published in 1579, The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo, based on Santaella's Castilian translation of 1503 (the first version in that language). [72]
Ronald Edward Latham (1907–1992) was an English classicist best known for his translation of On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius. He also translated The Travels of Marco Polo and revised Leo Sherley-Price's translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Cliff's third book was a new translation and critical edition of Marco Polo's Travels for Penguin Classics, which was released in the UK and U.S. in 2015. For this first all-new translation in a half-century, he went back to the original texts in French, Latin and Italian. [28]
Marco Polo, De conditionibus et consuetudinibus orientalium regionum (Latin translation of Francesco Pipino ) Odoric of Pordenone, De ritibus orientalium regionum; Peter, 'archbishop of Russia', Tractatus de ortu Tartarorum, including two other letters about the Mongols:
A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...
The text on the same page, from Marco Polo's Description of the World, describes the novelty of the khan's paper money, noting that traders from far-off locales bring their wares in exchange for these slips of paper. The three men in the image serve as an example of this widespread interest, their hats and clothing suggesting they belong to ...
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