Il riscatto geografico di Marco Polo

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_515
dc.title	Il riscatto geografico di Marco Polo
dc.contributor.author	Veneri Toni
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/quaderni-veneti/2012/2/il-riscatto-geografico-di-marco-polo/
dc.description.abstract	At the core of his monumental travel collection, the «Navigationi et viaggi» (1550-1559), Giovanni Battista Ramusio gave a place of honour to Marco Polo’s travels. Highlighting the spatial features of the book, the geographer strategically claimed its scientific value as an authoritative treatise on Asia and a reliable source for modern cartography. This paper aims at showing how this assertion contributed to the establishment of the myth of Marco Polo and served an ideological project of celebration of the Venetian knowledge of the Orient, which involved a complex network of competences as well as the production of a diversified set of cultural artefacts.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni Veneti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| December 2012
dc.issued	2012-12-20
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	1724-188X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/1724-188X/QV-1-2-12-3
dc.peer-review	yes

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At the core of his monumental travel collection, the «Navigationi et viaggi» (1550-1559), Giovanni Battista Ramusio gave a place of honour to Marco Polo’s travels. Highlighting the spatial features of the book, the geographer strategically claimed its scientific value as an authoritative treatise on Asia and a reliable source for modern cartography. This paper aims at showing how this assertion contributed to the establishment of the myth of Marco Polo and served an ideological project of celebration of the Venetian knowledge of the Orient, which involved a complex network of competences as well as the production of a diversified set of cultural artefacts.

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