Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd EditionTwenty-First Century Books, 2013年1月1日 - 132 頁 Can one book really change the world? A handwritten manuscript by Marco Polo in 1288 did. Polo, son of a wealthy Italian merchant, wrote about his incredible experiences traveling to China with his father and uncle on a trade expedition, and also about his adventures as an envoy of Kublai Khan, the ruler of most of China. Polo’s book became a bestseller in Europe in the fourteenth century. It was copied over and over by hand, translated into fourteen languages, and became one of the first books to be printed after the invention of moveable type. The tales inspired others—including Christopher Columbus in the fifteenth century—to seek new sea routes for trade. Polo’s adventures—and manuscript—are one of world history’s most pivotal moments. |
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第 6 到 10 筆結果,共 86 筆
... Rustichello . Rustichello then prepared a book of Marco's travels in a French dialect . Scholars disagree as to whether Rustichello wrote the book him- self or simply helped Marco to write it . It is thought that Rustichello sometimes ...
... Rustichello was writing at the table . He laid down his pen and nodded approvingly . " That's much better . I hope ... Rustichello chuckled . " As friends we shall have more chance of surviving in this Genoese pesthouse . And we can talk ...
... Rustichello da Pisa, but the date of this text makes it unlikely that our author used it, and Rustichello's Arthurian romance does not contain the history of the Holy Grail.30 The Estoire d'Atile en prose may thus be the first Franco ...
... Rustichello did not copy down at Marco Polo's dictation but produced the Geographic Text (or maybe a version, of which that manuscript is a descendant) after a prolonged and detailed study of all the notes that Marco Polo supplied to ...
... Rustichello of Pisa , who was in the same prison . 100 Messer Rustichello , no mere amanuensis , was identified in 1833 as a profes- sional writer of romances , once employed by Prince Edward of England ( later to become Edward I ) ...
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Traveling Across Asia | 36 |
Marco Polo In China | 54 |
Marco Polos Book | 68 |
Marco Polos Legacy | 84 |
Primary Source Research | 94 |
Primary Source Document | 104 |
Whos Who? | 114 |
Source Notes | 120 |
Bibliography | 124 |
Further Reading | 126 |
Websites | 127 |
Index | 128 |
About The AuthorPhoto Acknowledgments | 132 |
Back Cover | 134 |