Quaderni Veneti
6 | 2 | 2017
Quaderni Veneti
6 | 2 | 2017
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Vol. 6 | Num. 2 | Dicembre 2017
Quaderni Veneti | 6 | 2 | 2017
Giovan Battista Ramusio. Nuove indagini filologiche e linguistiche
Numero monografico
Sulla fonte Z del Milione di Ramusio
L’enigma di Quinsai
Giuseppe Mascherpa
università di pavia
giusemask@gmail.com
DOI 10.30687/QV/1724-188X/2017/02/003
Abstract
The study of the two chapters of the Devisement dou monde concerning the Chinese city of Quinsai, former capital of the Song Empire and a kind of Far Eastern Venice, is crucial to understand some important dynamics of the tradition of Marco Polo’s book. Indeed the synoptic reading of these chapters in the redactions F, Z and R – the last two far richer of information than the first – seems to confirm an old, debated hypothesis: the one according to which the Latin redaction Z and Ramusio’s Italian version (mostly deriving from a lost Z manuscript) would show traces of a rewriting of some parts of the book, in which some notes by Marco Polo, not used in the Franco-Italian text drafted in Genoa in 1298, would have been included.
Keywords
Marco Polo. Devisement dou monde. Quinsai. Latin redaction Z. Ramusio’s Italian version. Rewriting. Textual variants. Marco Polo’s notes.
