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Sulla fonte Z del Milione di Ramusio

L’enigma di Quinsai

Giuseppe Mascherpa    università di pavia    

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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.

Published
Nov. 26, 2018
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IT

Keywords: Quinsai • Latin redaction Z • Marco Polo’s notes • Ramusio’s Italian version • Rewriting • Textual variants • Marco Polo • Devisement dou monde

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/QV/1724-188X/2017/02/003

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