Series |
Medieval and Modern Philologies
Volume 21 | Edited book | «Ad consolationem legentium»
«Ad consolationem legentium»
The Dominicans’ Marco Polo
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Maria Conte - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Antonio Montefusco - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Samuela Simion - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
This book is the result of a fruitful exchange between the textual studies about Marco Polo’s Devisement dou Monde and the socio-historical research regarding Mendicant Orders. The Order of Preachers, in particular, includes the figure of the Venetian merchant as an auctoritas in the area of anthropological knowledge of Eastern traditions, through a Latin translation process contributing to evangelization in Asia. The aim of this book is to analyze the Dominican reception hybridizing philological and linguistical with historical and archival methods. The crossing of these research trajectories led to the finding of a parchment that testifies definitively the trusting relationship between Marco and the preachers of SS. Giovanni e Paolo convent. This convent is a key cultural center in the humanistic environment of Veneto, within which the Latin version Z is elaborated. This research has shed light on several fundamental moments of the P Latin version’s textual history, exploring the material aspects of manuscript witnesses as well as the textual relation with the vernacular source and Francesco Pipino’s Chronicon. Finally, an investigation is dedicated to the edifying adaptation of Marco Polo’s tales in Nicoluccio d’Ascoli’s sermons. The Dominican reception of Devisement dou Monde has relevant consequences for the text and its circulation, hopefully this book suggests a new perspective on Marco Polo and Dominican studies, stimulating further research.
Keywords Conv • C • Tartars’ history • SS • Medieval Translation • soppr • Francesco Pipino OP • Devisement dou Monde (textual Tradition) • Giovanni dalle Boccole • Marco Polo • Preaching friars and Paduan Humanism • Dominican friars • Nicoluccio d’Ascoli • Marco Polo’s Medieval Audience • Text and Transmission • Francesco Pipino • Albertino Mussato • Textual Studies • Rewriting intervention • History of Venice • Devisement dou monde • Dominican Order • Medieval chronicles • Sermones • Translating in Medieval Western Culture • Iacopo Passavanti • Giovanni e Paolo • Manuscript description • 1170 • VII • Giovanni e Paolo (Venezia) • Filippino da Ferrara • Audience and reception Studies • Order of Preachers • Dominican Reception
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-439-4 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-439-4 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-567-4 | Number of pages 234 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published July 27, 2020 | Accepted May 29, 2020 | Submitted May 4, 2020 | Language it
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