Medieval and Modern Philologies

Series | Medieval and Modern Philologies
Volume 21 | Edited book | «Ad consolationem legentium»

«Ad consolationem legentium»

The Dominicans’ Marco Polo

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Maria Conte - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
  • Antonio Montefusco - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia; Université de Lorraine, France - 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 1170Order of PreachersMedieval TranslationFrancesco PipinoMedieval chroniclesTranslating in Medieval Western CultureHistory of VeniceMarco Polo’s Medieval AudienceFilippino da FerraraGiovanni dalle BoccoleRewriting interventionDominican friarsText and TransmissionAudience and reception StudiesAlbertino MussatoTartars’ historyPreaching friars and Paduan HumanismManuscript descriptionDevisement dou Monde (textual Tradition)Giovanni e PaoloDevisement dou mondeFrancesco Pipino OPIacopo PassavantiDominican OrderMarco PoloSermonesTextual StudiesGiovanni e Paolo (Venezia)Dominican ReceptionSSCConvsopprNicoluccio d’AscoliVII

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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