Medieval and Modern Philologies

«Ad consolationem legentium»

The Dominicans’ Marco Polo

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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 Dominican Order • Manuscript description • soppr • Tartars’ history • Audience and reception Studies • Order of Preachers • Francesco Pipino • SS • Translating in Medieval Western Culture • Sermones • Giovanni e Paolo • Filippino da Ferrara • Text and Transmission • Preaching friars and Paduan Humanism • Giovanni dalle Boccole • 1170 • Medieval Translation • Rewriting intervention • VII • C • Medieval chronicles • Nicoluccio d’Ascoli • History of Venice • Francesco Pipino OP • Devisement dou Monde (textual Tradition) • Conv • Albertino Mussato • Textual Studies • Dominican friars • Iacopo Passavanti • Marco Polo • Giovanni e Paolo (Venezia) • Devisement dou monde • Dominican Reception • Marco Polo’s Medieval Audience

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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