Il «Marcho Polo» di Meo Ceffoni
Nota su un testimone minore della tradizione poliana
abstract
This study aims to present a collection of excerpts taken from the Devisement dou monde; the sylloge is transcribed by Bartolomeo Ceffoni on the ending folios of ms. Ricc. 1036 (Florence, Riccardian Library). Ceffoni’s excerpts represent an episode of the late circulation of Marco Polo’s work in the merchant class in the fifteenth-century Tuscany.
Keywords: Translation in Middle Ages • Tuscany • Devisement dou monde • Merchant literature in XVth c • Manuscript tradition and textual Fortleben